Many people think they know what ’sin’ is. One might answer that sin is going against the Ten Commandments, or ‘fornication’, perhaps ‘envy’… the thing is that these are examples of sin, but they don’t define what the root of sin is. The thing is, man has a definition of what sin is, ‘religious’ folks have one and the Most High God has His.
My Pastor preached a message on this, called “The Concept of Sin”, and I would like to share with you part of the definition he gave.
Reading from Rom 14:22 (KJV) says:
22Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
The sames verses in the CEV are:
22What you believe about these things should be kept between you and God. You are fortunate, if your actions don’t make you have doubts.
23But if you do have doubts about what you eat, you are going against your beliefs. And you know that is wrong, because anything you do against your beliefs is sin.
So anything you do, that is not of faith (which works by love ~ Gal 5:6) is sin. Sin is going against what you believe to be alright and true. That is the root of sin, from the bible. We can say that fornication is a sin, envy is a sin, etc etc, but one should understand why it is a sin. We can read examples and analogies that describe it, but I believe this is the clearest definition.
But halelujah, there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus!
God bless you all mightily…
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