They often start Christian, aware that there are certain
laws against sin: the 10 Commandments, and NT teachings.
Not exact matches
«Let's just stop doing business with those who promote
sin and stand
against Almighty God's
laws and his standards,» Graham wrote on Facebook over the weekend, in a post that has garnered nearly 100,000 likes.
Well most of us are probally of the christian of Jewish and faith and guess what that is a
sin and
against Gods
law.
This confidence in leadership individuals to
sin and violate the
laws of our earth, and do anything they want without regard to expose themselves and whole societies to extreme danger
against the upheaval that can be unleashed.
By even 1 mortal
sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act
against God's
law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.
Shouldn't the
sin of rebellion
against God be repaid with a deprivation of God's
Law, the greatest expression of His own particular love for the Jews?
For in my inner being I delight in God's
law; but I see another
law at work in me, waging war
against the
law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the
law of
sin at work within me.
The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of
sins against the
law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other
laws.
In fact, I've been taught that homosexuality is just about the worst kind of
sin that there is, one we ought to protest
against and make
laws about.
You
sin when you break His Holy
Law (this would include all sinful acts
against yourself and others), when you reject Him, and when you fail to give Him His due.
is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what
sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest
against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the
law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»
Rom 7:22 For I joyfully concur with the
law of God in the inner man, Rom 7:23 but I see a different
law in the members of my body, waging war
against the
law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the
law of
sin which is in my members.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the
laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families
against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the
sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence
against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
To define
sin it's anything that goes
against God's
law.
For I delight in the
law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another
law waging war
against the
law of my mind and making me captive to the
law of
sin that dwells in my members.
For Paul we escape the power of
sin, not by making
laws against it but by participating in the faithfulness, the death, and, eventually, the resurrection of Jesus.
Thus Paul's proving that all had
sinned was not to establish grace over and
against law (its not by trying but by trusting that we get to heaven) but rather that both Jew and Gentile are established as God's people by faith in Messiah Jesus.
Though He often does things that were
against the Jewish
law and Jewish traditions, and because of this, He is often accused of
sinning, He never once broke the
law of God as contained in the Old Testament.
Thus it appears that in the debate between the customary liberal view3 that stresses man's freedom in the willful breaking of known moral
laws and the neo-orthodox emphasis on unconscious
sin as derivative from man's basic pride, anxiety, and rebellion
against God, the truth may lie between.
I delight in the
law of God after the inward man, but I find another
law in my members, warring
against the
law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the
law of
sin which is in my members.
It is not enough to escape from bondage to a hated, alien foe -LRB-» a
law in my members which wars
against the
law of my mind and brings me into captivity to the
law of
sin in my members»); something must be done about my own ghastly guilt.
What «
law» do WE «
sin»
against today, and what is the «penalty» for «
sinning»
against that «
law»?
«
sin» as an actual (Old Covenant - spirited - type) LIST of activities that are (basically) «
against the
law»...
The
Law of Moses was NEVER given to us in the first place, so we can not «
sin»
against that
Law.
Is
sin an actual long list of ACTIVITIES that are «
against the
law» (of Moses), or is it more of a matter of «missing the mark» or, to be perhaps more accurately defined: Missing the whole point of life and living?
That is such a crooked way to say I am Christian and represent evil
sins How can you say I am Christian and not follow the God's
law but being
against it?
Lets us look at the truth of scripture and how Grace is really only applied to the repentant sinner, one who sees their
sin for what it is and knows that they have
sinned against a Holy God and that the works of the
Law can not save them.
But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a
sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a
law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate
against them because of their orientation.
They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is
against God's
law, that every lie is a deadly
sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.
«12 Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through one man, and death through
sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all
sinned 13 To be sure,
sin was in the world before the
law was given, but
sin is not charged
against anyone's account where there is no
law.
22 For I joyfully concur with the
law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different
law in the members of my body, waging war
against the
law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the
law of
sin which is in my members.
Sin made the spiritual creature break away from communion with God and urge its wholeself, body and soul, into a pattern of rebellion
against the great
Law by which all things are meant to be ordered and directed to their end.
The LORD is the one who says it is an abominable
sin against God and His
law / plan.
«What I can't understand is why we are expected to show respect for good scientists, even great scientists, who at the same time believe in a god who does things like listen to our prayers, forgive our
sins, perform cheap miracles,» he said, prompting a burst of nervous laughter to ripple through the audience, «which go
against, presumably, everything that the god of the physicist, the divine cosmologist, set up when he set up his great
laws of nature.
The analogy fails because
sin exists, whether it is a transgression
against religious or secular
law.
Of course, as a driver you need to know the different types of auto collision insurance that you can get because it is a heavy
sin against the
law to drive without any insurance in any states in America.