Why do we sin?

A few days ago I saw an article on the internet published by Newsweek. The title of the article was "His Cheating Brain: Why do powerful men risk everything for sex?"

Without wasting time and bytes on Spitzer, as a Bible-believer I was saddened by the answers that the article provided. "It has to do with brain chemistry, evolution and, yes, testosterone." Sadly, those are the only answers that a godless society can provide. Those are the answers of a society built upon an evolutionary psychology that treats men as animals essentially, responding to uncontrollable primitive urges. If we accept the answers of psychology, we have no hope. I mean, come on, what's a guy doing to do? He has millions of years of evolutionary development urging him to spread his genes around. He's helpless.

Thankfully, we have a better answer. The answer to the question "Why do powerful men risk everything for sex?" is simple: man is a depraved moral agent that loves sin and sometimes pursues it no matter what the potential consequences may be. If we accept the biblical answer, we have hope. Our hope centers upon the transforming work of regeneration that the Spirit brings about in the hearts of men and women that put their faith in Christ and His cross work.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 7:24-25a) Christ delivers us from the body of death (our enslavement to sin).