What is sin?

[Arphaxad12]

Hi again Squint!

So it looks like we'll just have to agree to disagree on the meaning of "salvation." Just for the record, my understanding of "salvation" is: 1. "The act of being saved from something." 2. "The act of delivering from sin or saving from evil."

Unfortunately I find no reference to either one of these definitions in any of your writings.

Here's a bit of reality you might appreciate:

There was once a certain woman who was obsessed with shopping for new clothing. Every weekend she was at the mall buying at least one item of new clothing.

Finally her husband became so upset over his "shopaholic" wife that he asked her to promise solemnly that she would buy no new clothing for the next six months. So she promised solemnly as her husband had asked that she would buy absolutely not even one item of new clothing for the next six months.

The following weekend she went to the mall and at the end of the day returned home with a beautiful brand-new silk dress. Her husband was livid! He asked her what happened. She answered that she absolutely HAD to buy the dress because it was on a tremendous sale, fit her perfectly, and was only a one-time opportunity.

"Did you bind the Devil?" asked her husband. "Oh, absolutely," she answered. "I even commanded him to get behind me. But as soon as I did that I heard a voice telling me:" "Hey Babe, that dress looks even better from the back!"

Sinning is thinning,
"Arph"
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P.S. Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

 

[Hismessenger]

Sin is the belief that you have the will to choose other than what God has ordained. Freewill is the essence of sin just as patience is the essence of Faith. When God said to choose life, it was a command to which we should be obedient but we continue on in death. For if you don't choose life, you will never live.

hismessenger

 

[squint]

Sin is the belief that you have the will to choose other than what God has ordained. Freewill is the essence of sin just as patience is the essence of Faith. When God said to choose life, it was a command to which we should be obedient but we continue on in death. For if you don't choose life, you will never live.

hismessenger

Freewill is the excuse that evil influences upon christians use to justify themselves and condemn/judge their fellow man.

One cannot "freewill" themselves out of the fact that both God and the devil have access to the minds and hearts of mankind, THEREFORE freewill is just another pet fantasy used to condemn mankind by the very influences being discussed.

One cannot "freewill" themselves to be sinless either. So how "free" then is that will?

enjoy!

squint