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Schoonenberg stated that sin is not against God’s will about our nature, but against God’s will and wisdom expressed in our nature.

He then immediately added a caveat concerning essentialism.  Sin is against “essential laws” of natural and supernatural reality.  Sin is against positive laws insofar as they (the positive laws) are justified by these essential laws.

[Schoonenberg artfully waffles.  What does he mean?  Here is my guess.

Sin is an action that is contextualized along the doubled axis of think^divine/think^group and along a Real axis of law^essential.

Think^divine and think^group are exclusive (to some extent).

Think and law^essential intersect.

Therefore, God and nature are not exclusive.  The nested forms of God and nature intersect.

Think^divine acknowledges the essential laws (natural and supernatural Realness).

Think^group expresses the organizational responses to that Realness through positive laws.]