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- At its heart, sin is a turning away from God’s love and wisdom. It is a rupture in the sacred bond between Creator and creature. The Scriptures teach us that sin is any lack of conformity to God’s perfect will, whether through action, thought, or omission.
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Sin. According to Christian belief, sin. separates humans from God, bringing lasting punishment. God gave humans free will so it is up to humans to decide for themselves how to...
- Introduction
- The Explanation of Sin
- The Entrance of Sin
- The Extent of Sin
- The Effects of Sin
- The Expiation For Sin
Any treatment of Christian doctrine would be incomplete if the biblical statement concerning sin were omitted. Modern Philosophy denies the existence of sin, but any such denial is part of a false philosophy. All refusal to admit the existence of sin can neither be controverted nor challenged. The Bible declares sin’s existence and the human heart ...
What is sin? When one seeks the answer to this question in the many and varied definitions of men he is left somewhat confused. There is a difference between the way God describes and explains sin, on the one hand, and the way, on the other hand, that men describe and explain sin. A certain minister excused bad behavior by accounting for it in term...
With respect to the entrance of sin in the human race we are confined to God’s revelation to us in His Word. Philosophers and some theologians have no reliable explanation of sin’s entrance into the world. One well-known preacher wrote, “It may be that there are evil entities in the universe who have mysterious access to the lives of men.” But the ...
The Bible teaches that sin entered the human race with Adam’s transgression. “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” (Romans 5:12). Adam was the doorway through which sin entered to all of his posterity because the “one man” in Paul’s statement is Adam. Adam...
The consequences of sin are doubtless more numerous than we will attempt to consider in this brief study. We will ponder only two at this time. Look first at the matter of guilt. I mean real guilt, that feeling of having done wrong because I know I did wrong. Sometimes a person is plagued with pseudo guilt, a guilt feeling arising from emotional ca...
Expiation is the act of making satisfaction or atonement for a crime or fault. God, because of His nature, not only demands that sin be punished but He also has provided for the sinner’s restoration to fellowship with Himself. It is at this point where the death of Christ enters the scene. God could not be satisfied until sin had been fully atoned ...
Sin is the failure to keep God’s law and to uphold his righteousness, thus failing to glorify the Lord fully. While there are many different manifestations that sin can take, they are all rooted in the initial disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden.
Sep 23, 2024 · At its heart, sin is a turning away from God’s love and wisdom. It is a rupture in the sacred bond between Creator and creature. The Scriptures teach us that sin is any lack of conformity to God’s perfect will, whether through action, thought, or omission.
The Definition of Sin. 1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity.
Nov 26, 2017 · The underlying idea of sin is that of law and of a lawgiver. The lawgiver is God. Hence sin is everything in the disposition and purpose and conduct of God’s moral creatures that is contrary to the expressed will of God (Rom. 3:20; 4:15; 7:7; James 4:12, 17).
Apr 15, 2021 · Most prominent among those metaphors is the idea of sin as a stain, a burden, or a debt. These metaphors help establish the contours in which a Christian hamartiology must be worked out, but none of them fully encapsulates the Scriptures’ teaching on sin (Bashevkin 2019: 6).
