«Matters of the heart» are just as much
willful sin as any other type of sin - and usually actions follow heart attitudes.
Not exact matches
As for not being perfect, well, that applies to our
sin nature, not the
willful or ignorant teaching of unsound doctrine.
Those that he describes
as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the
willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable
as God's creations, that is they exist in a state of
sin.
They committed
willful sins just
as frequently
as we do today, and God loved them just
as much
as He loves us today, and God did not want to abandon them to despair any more than He wants to abandon us today.
IE «
willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit
sins on purpose but to people who practice
sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Scott mentions some examples of grievous
willful sins such
as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.
I believed in the deity of Jesus
as a very young man, but I definitely did fall away in
willful sin after knowing the truth and I fell miserably for many many years.
I came to knowledge in Christ when I was still a child, and rebelled
as a teen, committing
willful sins and telling myself I would just ask forgiveness later.
He then culminated the symbol in the
willful giving of his son
as an ending sacrifice for all the
sins and misgivings of mankind.
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.
As Jeremy has pointed out elsewhere, nearly EVERY
sin is «
willful».
Sin must be defined initially
as a
willful «act.»
Man's
sin had deeper roots than
willful disobedience; it was,
as it were, a demonic power so that it was not Paul who did evil but «
sin which dwelleth in me.»
Our current definition of
sin, falls woefully short of dividing that which is simply not
as God intended it to be and
willful disobedience to a command of God.