Soyeong
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I don't think I do agree with that. As Ken said all the 10 commandments were known to be sins before Sinai.
Please explain the ways that you think that Israelites gained knowledge of what sin is.
That word for "knowledge" takes on a definition above and beyond what sin is defined as. I think ginosis is more about 'knowledge ABOUT' whereas epiginosis touches a deeper level of 'knowledge OF'. I know that's vague, but I'm not elaborating more than to say Romans 3:20 is epiginosis and 7:7 is ginosis.
Indeed, someone who has committed murder as a more intimate knowledge of that sin than someone who has not, but I am simply speaking about they knew what sin is.
Hopefully my last post helped.
Please be more specific.
What "life" and "death" is Paul talking about in verses 9-11 to put all your opinion into 'context'?
In Romans 7:9-11, the law of sin when God's commandment came because sin seized the opportunity through the commandment to deceive him and slay him, so what was promised life brought death to him. However, Paul said in verse 7:12-13 that the commandment is good and that he did not blame what was good for bringing death to him.
In other words, the command not to covet is good. It is the right way to live and should cause us to repent from coveting, and cause sin to decrease. However, there is something inside of us that causes us not to do the good that we want to do, which leads us to want to do the opposite of what we are told to do, which causes sin to increase. So this law of sin seized the opportunity through being commanded not to covet to cause us to increase our covetousness. However, Paul did not blame the command not to covet for increasing his covetousness, but rather he blamed the law of sin. We have no need to be set free from God's holy, righteous, and good Law, but rather we had the need to be set free from what was hindering us from obeying it.
You are not rightly dividing the difference between the 'temporal consequence'/penalties of SINS with the 'eternal consequence'/penatly of SIN. I make that division to understand differently than you.
I agree that all sin separates us from God, though I would say that some sin separates us farther from God than others. Someone who has murdered millions of people is not on the same level as someone who accidentally ate something that was unclean, though both need to be forgiven of their sins.
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