Sin is, therefore, always ready to be whatever we want it to be. Sin will inflame our healthy appetites and desires so that something that is innocuous or even good can become the very destruction of us. It is the inclination of our hearts to rebel against God. It is the predisposition of our hearts to embrace what we know is wrong. By the way, isn’t it always easier to spot somebody else’s accumulation than your own (“This is my little pile of accumulated sin and here is your bigger pile.”)? But sin is not the adding up of our omissions and commissions sin is a condition. We are inclined to think that “sin” is the accumulation of things we do wrong. Lewis has taken this innocuous confection and uses it to show us something about the power of evil in our lives. What is Turkish delight? The short answer is that it is a strange, gelatinous candy.
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