We often don't listen, but we are also incapable of hearing clearly because our consciences have been
damaged by sin.
Although it has been
damaged by sin, the voice of conscience is something God - given.
All this is to say that the faculties of the soul, which include imagination, memory, reason, and emotions, were not
themselves damaged by sin.
Not exact matches
My fear is that reconciliation is painful, to the point that one who has
sinned heavily after being saved will be forever unwilling to undergo the process, especially after having been so weakened (
damaged)
by the
sin.
Despite all this the fact remains that our stock was
damaged at the beginning of human history
by a real
sin, and the effects of this
sin are passed on to us all.
But instead of this
damaging line of thought, it is much better to realize that the way to gain release from the power of
sin in our lives is not
by wondering whether or not God has truly forgiven us and accepted us into His family (He has!)
Redemption is the healing of the
damage caused to human nature
by sin and the restoration of man's lost relationship with God.
Their
sin cut them off irrevocably from God and so God decided to repair the
damage done
by sending his Son to take that
sin upon himself and so restore human beings to righteousness.
It is this destiny and this environmental harmony that is lost
by sin in the first generation,
damaging the whole organically and spiritually interconnected Body of Humanity.
«He made the sinless one into
sin that we might become the goodness of God» (2Cor 5:21) Jesus makes good the
damage done
by sin by literally making good again those who have done the
damage to God's glory and to themselves.
However, if one chooses to regard it as a
sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced
by his
damaged personality as well as
by cultural pressures.
So much
damage has been done
by those who decided to «confront» what they think is someone else's
sin.
So the offence of
sin could be forgone
by God's free will, but the
damage done to our nature and the restoration of God's glory in the glorification of man could not be achieved without real healing and a commensurate price being paid.
It is not that God withholds his acceptance, but that the orderly laws of the psychological life makes it impossible to experience forgiveness fully until we have done everything possible to repair the
damage caused
by our
sins.
To deny the order of nature is an utter destruction, greater than the
damage of coarseness and concupiscence caused
by sin.
And how can Jesus» death repair the
damage caused
by sin and bring us forgiveness?
At the same time, in view of the
damage and destruction wreaked
by human
sin, he bore the awful cost of restoring and reconciling all things in his own body and soul.
However, in this world,
damaged by the disaster of
sin, only the same Saviour can become our Redeemer: He alone is sufficient to represent us who is also the Head of all, the measure of all, the one through, in and for whom all are made and fulfilled.
This way of thinking can cause horrible psychological and spiritual
damage to people who have already been abandoned
by loved ones, or feel that they have
sinned so bad, God has withdrawn from them and has left them alone to face the fallout from their
sin.
Some extra muscle gets provided
by Sin cards that do a variety of things such as letting you shift extra monsters around or deal more
damage.
The mission of Bethesda Workshops is to encourage sexual wholeness
by ministering to those
damaged by sexual
sin and addiction.