Edward Elliott viewed history as "God's education of the world" - a constant struggle between sin and gospel-grace.

Second, his trouble with critics often revolved around the distinction between mortal and venial sin.

It's the difference between what is sin and what is not sin.

I know the difference between crime and sin.

Each whispers his encouragement in the ear of the woman who wears them, as she hesitates, torn between virtue and sin.

A similar distinction between conscious and unconscious sin is made in Christianity.

"Nova hasn't learned the difference between evil and sin."

Now let's suppose there's some sort of connection between sin and evil and this Darkness stuff.

He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace.

"The real distinction between sin and innocence," he wrote, obviously defensively, was whether the viewer felt "sinful feelings or not."