And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared
false, for all its
mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these
things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.