This book is a companion to The New Man by the same author.
Chapters discuss our spiritual existence, the nature of truth, the meaning of life, human will, and individual growth..
That is, in this sense, everyone has missed the mark, missed the idea of their own true existence.
And this is sin.
It is in the wrong place.
That part of them which is truly real, and from which their own individual existence and growth can begin, is lost.
Such a person is dominated by external life and has no spiritual life.
Nicoll\'s contention that when a man is overpowered by outer life and influenced only by outside agency that person is machine-driven by his senses, but internally on the wrong road.
It is Dr.
And from meaning to miss the Mark it came to mean failing in one\'s purpose, and so erring or wrongdoing.
The author explains that in the Gospels the word translated as sin means in the literal Greek missing the mark, as of a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it.
The Mark is the realization of this transformation.
Nicoll discusses, by way of the Gospels, the idea that real religion is about realizing the potential for spiritual change, latent but unborn, that exists in everyone.
This book is a companion to The New Man by the same author
