Cobb Ch 8
Looking at confession in religion is critical to understanding how we interact with sin. A Muslim world view doesn’t account for guilt the same way that a Western one does. Confession is a sign of weakness in honor/shame societies and is not respected at all, yet in Western culture confession is respected because it reveals personal accountability and an owning of a wrong. We want closure and for things to fit. We want to know who is responsible so we know who can be punished, penitentials are one of our constructs that brings closure to the structure that has grown out of our Western myth. The question is, in bringing “sin” and its consequences under the covering of our own myth, have we fled from God’s perspective?
