Day and night follow each other not more surely, than punishment
comes upon sin.
He bears in his own body the consequences of other men's ill - doing, which are the appointed
judgement upon sin.
What I've been under the impression about God and why he hates sin is mainly due to the fact that he can not
look upon sin as a pure and holy being therefore, as sinners, we are completely separated from God.
Throughout the Bible the belief in God's supreme goodness and holiness carries with it the note of divine
judgment upon sin.
Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look
upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.
Homosexuals who rebelliously
insist upon their sin will intentionally ignore or twist this decisive truth about the question, but that tells it like it is with abundant, refreshing and summary clarity.
God would not be a God worthy of our worship — certainly not the God of Jesus — if he smiled
indulgently upon our sins, bypassed them, and let us go on sinning with no evidence of divine disfavor.
13 and is), so David's historian understands that the life and career of the king
turn upon his sin with Bathsheba.
It's a time of sackcloth and ashes, the long fast, self - denial,
focus upon sin and its consequences.
The basis for being free to participate in the celebration of the Lord's finished work on Calvary is that we recognize that we are all sinners and that Jesus was without blemish and therefore took
upon Himself our sins as that perfect sacrifice.
God came down as a man to take
upon Himself our sins to make us right with God, the Father.
In this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can look
upon sin and evil.
God can look
upon sin, and we can be thankful that He does, for otherwise, Jesus could not have come to deliver us from sin.
Despite the fact that most of us grew up believing that God could not look
upon sin (see my thoughts on that over here), it was not God who hid Himself from Adam but the other way around.
What about the triumph of holiness that is proud to say: «Look not
upon our sins, but on the faith of your Church»?
I remember a Calvinist preacher I heard in 1976 who would say stuff like «God is a hoooOOOOOoooly God who can not look
upon sin» and condemn his congregation for the merest peccadillo.
We can look to Christ who took
upon himself our sin and pain.
God is so holy that he can not look
upon sin and because God is just, a punishment must be exacted for sin.
So the basic christian story of some alleged but never proven god impregnating a virgin with himself so that his son can die and take
upon it the sins of all men is not true?
Nevertheless, the history of Jesus puts him clearly in the prophetic tradition of blunt speech concerning God's judgment
upon sin.
Saif Read your Quran and see that you are not pure and God can not look
upon sin.
After all, «God can not even look
upon sin.
The self - acknowledged sacerdotal sinner prayed that the Lord Jesus in granting peace and unity to the Church look not
upon his sins but rather upon the Church's faith which Christ himself assures.
The very office of minister, which far too often is understood to symbolize only judgment
upon sin, should be known as one expression in the Church of the forgiving spirit.
I have to remind myself that Jesus hung on that cross for me and he took
upon himself my sins.
Obviously, if God can not look
upon sin or evil then God should not have been able to look upon satan, or even allow satan to enter His presence.
It is only because God can look
upon sin that He sent His son Jesus Christ to do something about sin, and it is only because God can be near sin that He is able to be with each one of us in the midst of our sin and filth.
Look at it this way: To say that God can not look
upon sin or be in the presence of evil is to deny that Jesus was fully God.
Instead, be grateful and thankful that God can look
upon sin, and in fact, looks upon it every second of every day, and not just looks upon it, but decides to do something about it.