A man who murdered his brother in Europe visited me
many years ago. He was suffering from great mental anguish
and torture believing that God must punish him. He explained
that his broth had been having an affair with his wife, and
that he had shot him on the spur of the moment. This had
happened about fifteen years previous to his interview with
me. In the meantime, this man had married an American
girl and had been blessed with three lovely children. He was
in a position where he helped many people, and he was a
transformed man.
My explanation to him was that physically and
psychologically he was not the same man who shot his brother,
since scientists inform us that every cell of our bodies changes
every eleven months. Moreover, mentally and spiritually he
was a new man. He was now full of love and good will for
humanity. The “old” man who committed the crime fifteen
s before was mentally and spiritually dead. Actually, he was
years condemning an innocent man! This explanation had a profound effect upon him, and he
said it was as if a great weight had been lifted from his mind.
He realized the significance of the following truth in the Bible:
Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool. ISAIAH 1:18.