Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Sin the common malady

Today I find myself in some trouble. Not trouble Per Se but a moral quandary. Paul says "there is none righteous no not one" Romans 3:10. Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God". Romans 6:23 " For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.".
  So now the quandary is-- WHAT IS SIN?  We all have the childhood beliefs and ideals drilled into us by our parents. But this set of parents had these rules and that set of parents had those rules. So at what point do moral boundaries and society's rules become sin? Some of the books the Apostle Paul wrote in the New Testament were culturally influenced. So what in our culture today is defined as sin? I do not believe we can go by society as their idea of sin is tainted by their own perverseness.

 Who is to judge? God gives us the Ten Commandments. But nothing more specific. I believe that sin is what ever our conscience and the Holy Spirit convicts us of. But this leads to a whole new vein of thinking. We know immorality and infidelity is wrong. No argument. We know drunkenness, sloth, pride, idolatry etc is wrong. But are there grey areas?
          Missing church - wrong.
          Not tithing - wrong.
          Not attending church - wrong.
          Knowing to do good and doing it not - wrong.
          Anything that I do that causes my brother to stumble or question - wrong.
          But does this really nail down what is and what isn't sin? We here in America consider nakedness wrong but in other parts of the world it is the way of life. So what is sin and what is cultural dictates?

 This one has me completely baffled folks so i am working this through my thought process and hoping I can draw this to a full and final closure. But today I am wrestling with it. We know where sin leads. So I am going to go with anything that is detrimental to us or our brethren is wrong. All things in moderation is what the book of Proverbs says. I am going to define sin as detrimental. God convicts and leads us where He wants us to go. So from here on out sin is not objective but subjective. The whole if it feels good do it crowd is wrong. We will answer for our misdeeds and conduct one day so pray for wisdom. God will give it. Listen to that still small voice, pray to God that He will lead and then be prepared to follow where He takes you in your life that has to be cleaned up.

            Sin is sin. We each have to make our own way. All's I can say is I am going to try and get this right in my life and then Pray that God grants me the wisdom and the strength to see what I am wrong in and then to fix it.  Please if anyone reading this has further thoughts or a better clarification let me know. All comments welcome.


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