WHAT IS SIN?

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FlyingDove

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1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

We've all broken God's law. No one can say he is not a sinner until some means is provided (not to take away the law) but to remove the sin, which is the transgression of the law.

Sin's required payment/judgment is death Rom 6:23. A sinless Jesus willing sacrifice. Fulfilled/met, covered, cleansed & paid the laws requirement for & removes all our sin.

Once our sins have been removed, there is no transgression of the law

And thru belief the Sin Atoning Sacrificial Death, Burial & Resurrection of Christ. We are no longer under law.

KJV Dictionary Definition: IMPU'TED, pp. Charged to the account of; attributed; ascribed.
(MY NOTE: Whn we trust Christ, our sins are IMPUTED to Christ & Christ's righteousness is IMPUTED to us)

Rom 5:13 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Rom 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Rom 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Rom 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

Rom 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;