In one of my accounting classes, we learned about something called the fraud triangle, which I thought was a great theory. It said for someone to execute fraud, they had to have all three of the following:
1) Incentive
2) Opportunity
3) Rationalization
So if someone wanted to steal, but never had the chance to, it wouldn't happen. Or if they had a chance to, but couldn't make their conscience accept it as a viable option, it also wouldn't happen. And of course, if they didn't want to, they wouldn't even pursue it to begin with.
Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to put this triangle idea in Bible classes as a constructive theory behind the concept of sin. I've always felt that Biblical doctrine was a great way to provide the rationalization necessary to protect against the act of committing a sin, even when there was both the opportunity and a desire to engage in it.
A sin triangle also works because sin looks like a trigonometric function to begin with.
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