Sin, What is it really?

[greatblue]

Sin is anything that is not love. Love does not even think an evil thought. Love will not sin.

I would add that anything not of faith is also sin. Eve's deception is solely rooted in her unbelief. The serpent's bait was first met with her "inner doubt" that God's truth was not truth. She questioned and lacked faith in a time of testing. The very act of eating the fruit in disobedience birthed two distinct voices, "I do not believe God and I don't believe in God"...and we know the latter voice to be the end result of separation we see in the world now.

Genesis' depiction of the fall places ownership of sin's manifested state on the serpent. He carried the disease of "doubt". Regardless of our interpretation, God's cold blooded reptiles were made to wear this fate, according to Book 1. Unbelief, selfishness, evil...whatever you want to name "sin" to be, the commonality is that sin is what we chose/choose instead of God. If we read satan to be the serpent, and former glorified Lucifer, then we must link sin's inception to an event in the spiritual realm either at the moment of creation, or directly after. But...where is the clear link showing showing this Lucifer>serpent>satan evolution. Certainly, at man's fall the serpent was manifest to a different state.

Go through the gospels and research "faith". Count how many times Jesus explains that "faith" has healed, or made well, or moved mountains. Look at how many times He tells His disciples that they are doubting way too much...Thomas, for example. God asked Adam and Eve for faith; the Lord Jesus asks the same. I agree that "self" is the enemy of faith and God, thereby making it sin. I contend that this is sin word that passed through the serpent to man. From God comes the word of life : FAITH; from the serpent comes the word of death: SIN.

Just some thoughts. I follow Jesus Christ...author of my life.

 

[2knowhim]

I would add that anything not of faith is also sin. Eve's deception is solely rooted in her unbelief. The serpent's bait was first met with her "inner doubt" that God's truth was not truth. She questioned and lacked faith in a time of testing. The very act of eating the fruit in disobedience birthed two distinct voices, "I do not believe God and I don't believe in God"...and we know the latter voice to be the end result of separation we see in the world now.

Genesis' depiction of the fall places ownership of sin's manifested state on the serpent. He carried the disease of "doubt". Regardless of our interpretation, God's cold blooded reptiles were made to wear this fate, according to Book 1. Unbelief, selfishness, evil...whatever you want to name "sin" to be, the commonality is that sin is what we chose/choose instead of God. If we read satan to be the serpent, and former glorified Lucifer, then we must link sin's inception to an event in the spiritual realm either at the moment of creation, or directly after. But...where is the clear link showing showing this Lucifer>serpent>satan evolution. Certainly, at man's fall the serpent was manifest to a different state.

Go through the gospels and research "faith". Count how many times Jesus explains that "faith" has healed, or made well, or moved mountains. Look at how many times He tells His disciples that they are doubting way too much...Thomas, for example. God asked Adam and Eve for faith; the Lord Jesus asks the same. I agree that "self" is the enemy of faith and God, thereby making it sin. I contend that this is sin word that passed through the serpent to man. From God comes the word of life : FAITH; from the serpent comes the word of death: SIN.

Just some thoughts. I follow Jesus Christ...author of my life.

But Satan is not blamed for Sin and Death that came upon all men, Adam is, am I the only one who
realizes this?

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Jesus said it was because men Slept, that gave the enemy the right or the way in.
Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

So even here it suggest that it was by man.

 

[resurrection33]

I see the Bible defining sin as a "Nature"

I know that the Scriptures say, that sin is a transgression of The Law, and also,
What is not of Faith is sin. But what is the motive behind either?

In my understanding there has ever only been two Natures, The nature of the first Adam, and The Nature of The Last Adam.

I believe scripture shows this starting with Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael; it depicts the Nature of the flesh and the Nature of The Spirit.
I also believe that is why it is said by God, that he hated Esau before he was even born, He hated what Esau depicts, which is the nature of the flesh.


Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

And this may go unnoticed by most but when God changes someone’s name in scripture, it suggests also a change of Nature. Name......on'-om-ah
From a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685); a “name” (literally or figuratively), (authority, character): - called, (+ sur-) name (-d).

Such as Abram to Abra-ha-m, adding the "He" or (hay) is the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and 5 means "Grace" it has been said that God breathed into his nature, Grace, and Abram (High Father) became Abraham which means Father of a Multitude.

Another Example would be of Jacob, to Israel, something always seems to take place just before this happens. Of course in this instance it was all about the Seed that was to come, which is none other than The Son of God.
I see it as a type, or shadow of being born again, into that New Nature, the Divine Nature. Wow, what a pattern, I just noticed, of God giving us Grace to receive The Seed, to become born in the image and likeness of His Divine Nature, bringing forth The Son.

Anyhow, that's my understanding on sin. It is a Nature that only God through Christ can change, I don’t believe man has the ability to do this. Just two more scriptures.

Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

I think these last two shows the difference in our nature before and after our change.

Thank you for listening
God Bless

Sins are acts of selfishness. Selfishness gets us into trouble. Therefore the Lord has warned us not to sin. In the Bible he describes specific selfish acts, but we always want to keep the two great commandments in mind: Love the Lord with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt 22:34-40).