Since all wrongdoing is sin (1 John 5:17), is it a sin to do evil of any kind?
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I'm simply asking the question that I'm asking. So no, this is not a trick question, unless I'm wrong about that somehow.
I think that sin is sin...but if you're a believer you're covered by Grace...as soon as you know you have sinned ..you need to repent of it..and try not to repeat it again...here's something that I found... https://www.gotquestions.org/sin-consequences.html
It's a sin to do good as well . . .
Isaiah makes it clear for us . . .
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away" (Isaiah 64:6).
And to think that multitudes are using filthy rags to purchase salvation from God . . . NO SALE!
by the way . . . filthy rags are menstrual clothes. Wrong kind of blood. Only Jesus' Blood will satisfy the demands of the Law.
the short answer is yes
if "neutral" is also sin
then even this thread itself is sin
and by posting to this thread, I'm probably sinning right now
Therefore,
even responding to this thread is sin, so I'll just leave one of my "sinning" right here in this thread of sin.
if "neutral" is also sin
then even this thread itself is sin
and by posting to this thread, I'm probably sinning right now
Therefore,
even responding to this thread is sin, so I'll just leave one of my "sinning" right here in this thread of sin.
That is not what Isaiah is saying at all. He is comparing the righteous works of the unsaved to the righteousness of God and Christ. In this regard *there is none righteous*.
It is NOT a sin to do righteous deeds, but that will not make anyone fit for Heaven. The standard is God s absolute righteousness.
So what does God think of a man trying to work his way to heaven with his good works?
That was exactly my point. Apart from the imputed righteousness of Christ, no man can enter Heaven. Hence those attempts are merely *filthy rags* in view of the robe of righteousness which God places upon the one who believes.
AT THE SAME TIME we must recognize that the unsaved do good works and those cannot be humanly discounted. And even God sees them as good works. But not for salvation.
ROMANS 2
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Well is all wrongdoing evil, maybe not, but as you quoted in 1 John 5:17 all wrongdoing is a sin. We also know sin sits itself in the ring with evil. Any and all evil is void of God. I think the evil in wrongdoing is in the intent. I think we serve ourselves and Him seeking, with His help, pursuit of righteous doing.