R.C. Sproul

Now, you've heard that comment, haven't you?

When we say to err is human, to forgive is divine, we again go back to the idea of

Errare humanum est, which means to err is human.

We've heard that little phrase so many times that we begin to see that the idea to err is human, what is unspoken, what is assumed when we make the comment is, well, to err is human, so it's perfectly what?

okay to err, because what could possibly be more human than to make a mistake?

And we have grown at ease in Zion here and comfortable with the fact that we are disobedient.

To err is human, and to err comes under the judgment of God.

When we sin, we want to describe our sinful activity in terms of a mistake, as if that sort of softens or mitigates the guilt involved, because we don't think it's wrong for a child to add two and two and come up with five.

We know the answer is wrong, but we don't spank them and say, you bad boy, you know, you made five instead of four out of two and two.

That's what we think of mistakes as being simply

part of the human condition, we can't help it.

To err is human, which is to say, it's okay.

It's like, how many times have you heard people say this?

You know, everybody's entitled to one mistake.

You heard that?

You said it.

We live in a country of entitlements where we have our inalienable rights, and one of those inalienable rights that we assume now has been given to us by our Creator is the inalienable right to make a mistake.

Everybody's entitled to one.

My question for you is this.

From whence cometh that entitlement?