'Sin' a play some don't want to see

"'Sin' opens Friday in Glen Ellyn," read an Oct. 16 Daily Herald article. A play by Wendy Macleod is said to examine the life of a helicopter reporter, Avery Bly, during the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989. This morality play turns on its head biblical values, and I take issue with many of its root assumptions.

The producer, Lisa Dolnics, is cited as saying, "The playwright also rejected the black and white lessons of morality plays in favor of gray areas that reflect a more contemporary view of modern culture." Macleod and Dolnics are right, that to appease modern culture gray areas are the view de jour.

"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." - 2 Timothy 4:3. The collective media being "a great number of teachers," I think we have arrived at that day.

Dolnics said, "As much as we think we're above sin, we need sin to live life."

"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." - 1 John 1:8. And Romans 3:10 says: "There is no one righteous, not even one." And Romans 3:23 says: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

Dolnics concludes, "In order to live a little, we need to sin a little." In direct contradiction, Romans 6:23 says: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Media is often a celebration of "culture," what the Bible calls "the world."

"If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." - 1 John 2:15.

"Sin," is a play my conscience can't afford to see.

Brian Vandine

Carol Stream