Why does sin cause death?

[Tania11]

Just pondering this.

 

[redleghunter]

Sin is what separates us from God and thus death.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Also this should be instructive:

Romans 5 BSB

 

[Tania11]

Sin is what separates us from God and thus death.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Also this should be instructive:

Romans 5 BSB

So basically all sin is a rejection of what God had in store for you in the beginning?

 

[Jeshu]

Sin is doing what is not right! Not right cannot sustain itself but only 'borrow' from our God given good life to nourish itself on. God is the truth and (a)life, God is also love. Any offence against God's love has no lasting life within it but leads to death. That the death is gradually shows us that God wants the sinner to repent and so find the truth and the life again in love as to be reunited with God through the cleansing blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Peace.

 

[fhansen]

Just pondering this.

All sin is an anomaly in nature or creation; a disorder, an injustice. As such it's directly opposed to the will of God and therefore separates us in will from Him, meaning that we're outside the authority of the Creator and lover of our souls and of His laws that should govern us. Man was made for communion with God, but fallen man is born dissociated from Him, the source of our life, to begin with, and this separation is the essence of death for man (sometimes referred to as the "death of the soul") and constitutes the main aspect of what is sometimes called the state of "original sin". Man must be born again and this means to be reconciled with God as we come to know for ourselves of His existence, trustworthiness, forgiveness, mercy, goodness, and love- as we come to know Him, IOW- and so come to believe. This is why Jesus came-to reveal the true "face" of God as He'd never been revealed before-when the time was finally ripe in human history.

"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3

"No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.” Part of the New Covenant prophecy of Jer 31

 

[redleghunter]

So basically all sin is a rejection of what God had in store for you in the beginning?

Yes. You have come to a sage conclusion.

Sin is what separates us from God. Consider this:

Ephesians 2: NASB

1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.3Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

4But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

 

[JackRT]

Sin may cause death in a spiritual and metaphorical way. Not to be confused with physical death which has been with us for many hundreds of millions of years.

 

[redleghunter]

Sin may cause death in a spiritual and metaphorical way. Not to be confused with physical death which has been with us for many hundreds of millions of years.

Well it’s both physical and spiritual as we are one being of body and soul. Some believe a trichotomy of body, soul and spirit.

Both the trichotomist and dichotomist views are historic and orthodox.

Now if death in the Scriptures did not include physical death then why did Jesus Christ rise bodily (physical) from the dead?

Or don’t you want to touch that with a ten foot pole.

 

[fhansen]

Well it’s both physical and spiritual as we are one being of body and soul. Some believe a trichotomy of body, soul and spirit.

Both the trichotomist and dichotomist views are historic and orthodox.

Now if death in the Scriptures did not include physical death then why did Jesus Christ rise bodily (physical) from the dead?

Or don’t you want to touch that with a ten foot pole.

Right. Or why does a living, breathing, human being need to be be born again, born from above, raised to newness of life, etc?

 

[redleghunter]

Right. Or why does a living, breathing, human being need to be be born again, born from above, raised to newness of life, etc?

Exactly

 

[bling]

Just pondering this.

Adam and Eve did not fulfill their earthly objective without sinning, so everything had to change in order to help willing individuals complete their earthly objective:

This messed up world with Christ having to go to the cross, satan roaming the earth, tragedies of all kind, death, hell and even sin, is actually the very best place for willing individuals to fulfill their earthly objective.

Let’s say no one died and God just limited the number born so we did not get in each other’s way. If people did not have death hanging over them, would they put off accepting God’s help as charity and go on sinning, since sinning has a perceived pleasure for a season. What is the rush to learn about God and change with repenting?

Answer me this: would you prefer to be in a place (the Garden without death) where your eternal close relationship with God depends on your personal ability to obey or in a place (where you are now with death) where your eternal close relationship with God is dependent on your just accepting God’s help (charity) as charity?

 

[1213]

Why does sin cause death?

First, I think it would be good to look at these scriptures:

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Mat. 25:46

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23

Eternal life is promised for righteous. And wage of sin is death. Reason for this, I think, is that if unrighteous would live forever, he would make life eternal suffering for all. That is the reason why I think sin leads to death. If person uses life for evil, it is not good to allow it to continue forever. Reason why I think eternal life is for righteous is that they understand what is good and want to do good and that is why they can have life.

 

[BobRyan]

Just pondering this.

God is the source of all life.
John 14: 6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Is 59:Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save;
Nor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

 

[WebersHome]

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● Gen 2:15-17 . . And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for in the day you eat of it, you shall die.

There was a time when I sincerely believed that the tree's fruit contained a toxin. But when Eve tasted some, nothing happened. She went on as usual with no ill side effects, and continued to feel no shame in full frontal nudity. It wasn't till Adam tasted the fruit that her personality changed.

Sunday school classes, sermons, and radio Bible programs drilled it into my thick skull over the years that we all inherit something similar to Eve's altered personality via procreation; viz: from our biological fathers. But I eventually had to discard that theory because Eve was born prior to the incident so she couldn't possible inherit it via procreation. So then, from whence did Eve obtain an altered personality if not from the fruit, and if not from her biological daddy?
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[TrevorL]

Greetings Tania11,

Why does sin cause death?
Just pondering this.

The overall view of this is that it was in God the Father’s wisdom that once Adam and Eve sinned that they were sentenced to die.
Genesis 2:16–17 (KJV): 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:17–19 (KJV): 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Adam and his descendants were sentenced to return to the dust.

One reason why they were sentenced to death was that God did not want immortal sinners:
Genesis 3:22–24 (KJV): 22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

But even in the above, in the face of death, there is some indication that there is the prospect of life. The cherubim were to preserve the way of the tree of life. Thus an important part of all that had happened was that God had in view the reversal of this process in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Even in Eden the seed was promised who would overcome sin and all its effects.
Genesis 3:15 (KJV): And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

There are many passages that clearly teach that life comes through the death and resurrection of Jesus, but the following is a sample:
Romans 6:23 (KJV): For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:12,18–21 (KJV): 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

We can share in this life when we have an affectionate belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus and identify with this when we are baptised into his death and resurrection:
Romans 6:3–8 (KJV): 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[concretecamper]

Just pondering this.

because all life is sustained by God.

 

[Apex]

Sin may cause death in a spiritual and metaphorical way. Not to be confused with physical death which has been with us for many hundreds of millions of years.

This is correct. Sin does not cause physical death.

 

[msortwell]

So basically all sin is a rejection of what God had in store for you in the beginning?

Sin purchases for the sinner that which God has in store for the disobedient.

 

[not under law]

Just pondering this.

Jesus died for our sins, so how could sin cause death for the believer? The believers righteousness is faith in Christ. As long as you have faith you are saved, but sin hardens the heart, and in the end, if you persist enough in it, you will lose your faith, without that, there is only death to come