Coming to Grips with the Reality of Sin

The psychotherapist M. Scott Peck spent many years of his practice as an agnostic. He, along with thousands upon thousands of his colleagues were taught that evil was a social construct, and therefore did not exist. Some time later, Peck became a Christian, and around the same time he began questioning the standard psychological belief that evil did not exist. What he found were specific instances in his practice that demanded some alternative explanation than merely “mistaken” or “mis-guided” behavior. There seemed to be a deeper, darker dimension of human behavior that could only be…