Observations/Reflections: On John Bunyan's Sensitivity to Sin
Status: Dictated but Not Reviewed
Published: 02/16/10
Written: 01/12/2010
Dictated By: Flint McGlaughlin

I think it's fascinating that Bunyan in his spiritual autobiography details the perceived depravity of his childhood, but also inadvertently points out the difference between himself and his peers. Even as a child he was highly sensitized to sin. He was so troubled by the possibilities of hell, that at times he had a peculiar wish. He wished he'd been born a "devil" rather than human. In Bunyan's young mind, he thought of the "devils" as tormenters in hell, and of humans as the tormented.