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Though an expansion of sin exists in the New Testament, to hateful thought or lust being murder and adultery, guilty of one sin, guilty of all, an important point the legalists miss. They are in deep trouble, still, if they "merely" kept the big list by deed. The New Testament standard of holiness is impossible for corruptible man, this the reason we are clothe in His righteous, or filthy rags, nothing in-between. The New Testament standard makes the legalists that much more absurd, because a black speck in your heart and mind are sin, such things a daily occurrence only the self righteous do not acknowledge.
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Doubt and worry are great examples, anybody who never worries an especially bad liar, but it's really saying we aren't completely trusting God, aren't loving Him completely, to not take Him at His word, of much scripture. The Lord wants that trusting faith more than anything, which was the salvation of Old Testament believers.
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So as long as we love, anything else we do is ok and not sin.
There I fixed it. Punctuation IS important.
There I fixed it. Punctuation IS important.
Yes, as long as we are constantly loving God completely and loving others completely -- always thinking of them, always caring for them, always doing what we can with God's will in our life, (as in no thought of "What do I get out of this?"), then yes, anything else is fine.
Funny thing though. When is the time for "everything else?"
Very pronounced mark that we miss so easily, isn't it?
We're on the same archery field. We're looking at the same bull's eye. We've got the right bow and the right arrow set. We're seeing it in different ways. Yours is "missing the mark." Mine is "Love completely always." Same bull's eye. And same bull's eye because we're both using God's word to define the term, so this is no accident.