What Is Sin?

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mcubed

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I know people on here hate anything that have to do with the “Law” or Jewish tradition. Because of you I will enjoy posting this thread… lol… of course only if people respond… lol….

Tomorrow, at sundown is Yam Kippur, if you put prejudice aside, it is a time sundown to sundown to only spend with G-d. 24 hours of prayer and fasting and feeding only on the Word of G-d. Yes, a time of repentance, but you get to walkway knowing it is all under the blood. This brings up great questions… if your saved what do you do with your sin that you commit? What do you call sin? I know quite a few saved people that think porn is entertainment not sin …. Is it? Is calling the other driver in another car that cuts you off while driving, or going to slow while try to get to work on time a “wanker” in your mind a sin? What is sin? What is o.k. in your eyes and what is o.k. in G-d’s eyes?
 
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dalconn

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anything not of faith is sin...is calling people names in traffic done by faith or flesh?
 
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The actual word "sin" first shows up in the Bible at Gen 4:7

"If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the
door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

The first description of sin was not as bad behavior, but as powerful
impulses in human nature strong enough to control people's lives if they fail
to exercise self control in order to prevent those impulses getting the best of
them

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There will be as many explanations and excuses as there are people.
I think we should ask God !
Scripture says 'Sin is the transgression of the law'....1Joh 3v4.
How do people/christians deal with this ?
they nail the law to the cross and go their merry way.
 
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Sin means to 'miss the mark'

People, whether saved or no.. continously miss the mark.

It is not just the 'deadly seven' sins

It's imperfection.

And no one except God is perfect.

Does this mean we give in.. since there is no hope because we are sinful beings?

No.. because Jesus has become the one sacrifice for all sin to whosoever believes in Him.

A person who has been converted by Jesus and has eternal life.. is then freed from the chains of sin and death and can serve God freely out of love for what He has done for them!

Someone gives you an earthly gift.. I imagine most of the time you would be thankful.

What then about the gift of eternal life from Jesus Christ to anyone who believes in Him?

Just because blood has paid for sin.. does not mean then there is no consequence for sin after receiving eternal life!

Entrance to heaven is given.. yes.. but God still disciplines.. rebukes.. teaches and admonishes His children.
 
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1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

seems pretty clear to me.
 
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Yonah said:
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

seems pretty clear to me.
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Hi,
it may seem clear to you and me but when people consider the law 'dead' it has no effect in their life, can not produce 'saving-power. It must find 'fertile ground to bring about the 'working together of all things for our good and to glorify God....in other words 'to establish a true relationship.
The Law of God is the Will of God without which no one can enter the Kgd of God after having received Grace. These 2 go together...don't you think so ?
 
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I think some people are under a big misapprehension.. Believing We are saved 100% by the Atonement of Jesus does not mean the Law not to murder is now defunct and Christians can just go out and kill whomsoever they want when ever they feel like it.. What is moral and good established in the OT Bible and NT through the teachings of Jesus are still moral and good, and what is declared evil by the Bible is still evil.. Jesus took away the curse of the Law not the Law.. The curse of the law is that anyone who does not do the Law must die.. There is a death curse on anyone who breaks the Law or fails to do the law.. Jesus paid the penalty or paid the fine that humans owed because of our transgressions of the Law..

So the Law today acts to let us know why we desperately need the Atonement of our LORD Jesus Christ..

I see many are posting that sin is breaking the Laws .. But sin is also failing to do a good deed when one can do a good deed but chooses to turn away and not do it..

James 4: KJV
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
 
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"Sin" is anything contrary to the good and holy character of God.
 
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mcubed said:
Tomorrow, at sundown is Yom Kippur
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Yom Kippur can be practiced neither correctly nor effectively without a fully
functioning Aaronic priesthood and a Temple at Jerusalem. That being the
case then the Jews' observance of Yom Kippur in our day and age is not the
real McCoy.

In my estimation, the most important part of the actual Yom Kippur ritual is
the goat commonly called a scapegoat. But its actually an escaping goat;
viz: a fugitive.

The sins of the people are ceremoniously placed on the goat and it is then
taken out and turned loose. Well; that's not good because unless the goat is
slain, the people's sins go unpunished.

In other words: Yom Kippur is not entirely a day of atonement as it's usually
called, but also a day to remember that one's sins are still on the books hanging
over their head like a sword of Damocles. God is keeping an exhaustive
inventory of every one of them as an indictment to be used at the great
white throne event depicted at Rev 20:11-15.

● Heb 10:1-3 . . The law is only a shadow of the good things that are
coming-not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the
same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who
draw near to worship. If it could, would they not have stopped being
offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and
would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an
annual reminder of sins

The "annual reminder" spoken of in that passage is Yom Kippur.

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FreeNChrist

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beta said:
Hi,
it may seem clear to you and me but when people consider the law 'dead' it has no effect in their life, can not produce 'saving-power. It must find 'fertile ground to bring about the 'working together of all things for our good and to glorify God....in other words 'to establish a true relationship.
The Law of God is the Will of God without which no one can enter the Kgd of God after having received Grace. These 2 go together...don't you think so ?
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It's not that the Law is dead, it's that we are dead to the Law.

“For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God." Gal. 2:19
 
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FreeNChrist said:
It's not that the Law is dead, it's that we are dead to the Law.

“For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God." Gal. 2:19
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Amen...well said!

Either we pick the law of Moses and all it's consequences if we don't do all of it to live by or we live by the life of Christ that is in the true believer.
 
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mcubed said:
I know people on here hate anything that have to do with the “Law” or Jewish tradition. Because of you I will enjoy posting this thread… lol… of course only if people respond… lol….

Tomorrow, at sundown is Yam Kippur, if you put prejudice aside, it is a time sundown to sundown to only spend with G-d. 24 hours of prayer and fasting and feeding only on the Word of G-d. Yes, a time of repentance, but you get to walkway knowing it is all under the blood. This brings up great questions… if your saved what do you do with your sin that you commit? What do you call sin? I know quite a few saved people that think porn is entertainment not sin …. Is it? Is calling the other driver in another car that cuts you off while driving, or going to slow while try to get to work on time a “wanker” in your mind a sin? What is sin? What is o.k. in your eyes and what is o.k. in G-d’s eyes?
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Sin is when you break one of the Lord's commandments.
 
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Yonah said:
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

seems pretty clear to me.
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And yet sin reigned from Adam. Adam was before the law.

Ro 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
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To blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
 
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Preacha24-7

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Sin is anything contrary to the Word of God. God is holy and hates sin. Holiness is God's standard. God loves sinners. Sinners is past tense. Anyone that's born again is no longer a sinner. Christians must die daily. We have to crucify the flesh so the Spirit of God can take over. 1John1:5 God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
Verse 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. Verse 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. Verse 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Romans8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. To God be the Glory.
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It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Heb 10:4
 
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When Jesus is called the Lamb of God in John 1:29 and John 1:36, it is referring to Him as the perfect and ultimate sacrifice for sin. In order to understand who Christ was and what He did, we must begin with the Old Testament, which contains prophecies concerning the coming of Christ as a “guilt offering” (Isaiah 53:10). In fact, the whole sacrificial system established by God in the Old Testament set the stage for the coming of Jesus Christ, who is the perfect sacrifice God would provide as atonement for the sins of His people (Romans 8:3; Hebrews 10). https://gotquestions.org/Jesus-Lamb-of-God.html
 
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SIN is CHOICE....
 
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