“In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if  life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain  itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be  the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.”

-From Renovation of the Heart, by Dallas Willard.

A key psychological insight.  The world is blind to its sin because it could not possibly be see it and remain as it is.  The world is blind by definition.  The options are either to deny or to repent, there is no third.  I am terribly afraid of this.  I hear the words of Nathan the prophet: “you are that man.”