This story about God and sin made me laugh at first.

But then I puzzled over it for a bit.

It’s hard to know exactly what the case would be unless you want to dive off into the serious theology of it.

For what is sin anyway?

Romans 1:20 talks about God revealing himself in nature.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 talks about God revealing himself in the hearts of people.

So maybe telling the Eskimo did not change anything at all?

Somewhere, and I can’t find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek