The problem I feel we have in our lives is not just that people are ignorant of the pervasiveness of evil practices in everyday life and dependence of society on them day by day (in sanitised form) but the ignorance of the gospel Jesus Himself preached in its true form since it is so diluted and muddied by misunderstanding among its preachers today. I spent months in my youth trying to go back to it as John recorded it in his gospel and I recommend that. What we miss is for example in chapter 8, that it is all about not dying in our sin. Major sin can be eradicated from us by Jesus before we die but we need to believe in who Jesus is first and hold to His teachings always. And believing in who He is gets lost in modern Christianity because of historic issues. It is all about Him being a certain being who was with God from the dawn of time and is who He is now and forever still yet alive from the dead - the Son of Man. Believing this and holding to His teachings is essential to having Him free our lives from major sins before we die so we do not 'die in our sins'.
