What is sin? Sin means literally to "miss the mark" as in archery...
What mark is it that we miss when we sin? where were we supposed to aim that we missed?
The answer is we are missing God. to come to communion with God.. that is our goal... that is the goal of every human being everywhere... to be in communion with God. it is not a "goal" as we term it, i for instance had the goal today to see my friend and have some coffee... this goal i speak of is the culmination of every yearning we have ever... the milk and honey to our soul, our very lifeblood relies on our relationship with God.
When a person sins, the person is not living up to the image of life set by God.
is God picky?
is God some kind of prude who only associates with the "clean"?
if that is your impression then you have never heard anything of the bible...
God is the most humble, the most loving, the boundless ruler who comes to comfort the most lowly of his kingdom. God has said "i forgive you, now go and sin no more"
the wording of this says it all,,, I FORGIVE YOU comes first, the forgiveness is there before the declaration to sin no more.... the forgiveness of sin therefore is a constant..
If my sins are forgiven before i even do them then why even ask for forgiveness?
God lacks nothing. he does not need us as we need him. the forgiveness is there for all sins, but we MUST humble ourselves to ask for it.
why is it hard to stop sinning?
we live in a fallen world... we are not in paradise.. it is hard to stop sinning because sin is the means that we try to fix our condition by. since it does not work it never accomplishes more than to cripple its median.
It is hard to stop sinning because we are broken.
Human salvation seems to me to be like repairing an internal component of a gasoline engine... you must break it down, and down and down, into its individual parts... thus must a human being be broken down, and broken down and broken down from our egotistical pedestal, to the level where we truly realize our incompotence...
God did not put us in this position because he thought it would destroy us... he put us here so that we could be the arm of Love.. he put us here because he has endless faith in us.... let us return his immeasurable faith in the world with what faith we can muster in him, and it will be multiplied tenfold by God!!!
What mark is it that we miss when we sin? where were we supposed to aim that we missed?
The answer is we are missing God. to come to communion with God.. that is our goal... that is the goal of every human being everywhere... to be in communion with God. it is not a "goal" as we term it, i for instance had the goal today to see my friend and have some coffee... this goal i speak of is the culmination of every yearning we have ever... the milk and honey to our soul, our very lifeblood relies on our relationship with God.
When a person sins, the person is not living up to the image of life set by God.
is God picky?
is God some kind of prude who only associates with the "clean"?
if that is your impression then you have never heard anything of the bible...
God is the most humble, the most loving, the boundless ruler who comes to comfort the most lowly of his kingdom. God has said "i forgive you, now go and sin no more"
the wording of this says it all,,, I FORGIVE YOU comes first, the forgiveness is there before the declaration to sin no more.... the forgiveness of sin therefore is a constant..
If my sins are forgiven before i even do them then why even ask for forgiveness?
God lacks nothing. he does not need us as we need him. the forgiveness is there for all sins, but we MUST humble ourselves to ask for it.
why is it hard to stop sinning?
we live in a fallen world... we are not in paradise.. it is hard to stop sinning because sin is the means that we try to fix our condition by. since it does not work it never accomplishes more than to cripple its median.
It is hard to stop sinning because we are broken.
Human salvation seems to me to be like repairing an internal component of a gasoline engine... you must break it down, and down and down, into its individual parts... thus must a human being be broken down, and broken down and broken down from our egotistical pedestal, to the level where we truly realize our incompotence...
God did not put us in this position because he thought it would destroy us... he put us here so that we could be the arm of Love.. he put us here because he has endless faith in us.... let us return his immeasurable faith in the world with what faith we can muster in him, and it will be multiplied tenfold by God!!!