“Identity-in-sin means not to live from God, not to honor God as the constant source of our being, not to be thankful to God as the one who constantly gives us ourselves. Identity is sin when persons imagine that their being has been conferred over to them, when they try to live out of themselves in terms of the reality which God may have once conferred onto them by which they now hold in their possession. Sin is to refuse to life out of the reality in which a person constantly receives from God.”
–Arthur C. McGill, Death and Life: An American Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1987), 52.
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