Philip, what I was trying to say was that, effectively, if you’re not aware of committing a mortal sin, you haven’t. You have to be fully aware of what you’re doing to commit a mortal sin, and that’s the point.

Brandon, welcome.

I don’t mean, Kent, to get your hackles up, but I do think that most (if not every) denomination does get more specific than that. The Reformers did, the Fathers did. I think it’s pretty important to know, and I think Paul, in his exhortations in Ephesians especially, tells us that reflection and edification on these points is to be sought, not spurned.

Michael, re: the Willard quote, I dunno. Am I wrong in thinking that the quote nearly says that Jesus came because of the law?