Results 1 - 6 of 6
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | Robert Nicholson | 74660 | ||
What is the difference between sin and sins? Robert |
||||||
2 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | inmyheart | 74670 | ||
Sin is a disease The first man, Adam, acquired the disease It was acquired by Adam through the forbidden fruit The fruit presumably contained some infective agent This agent has two effects: (1) It initiated a process of decay which introduced physical death into human experience. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin...and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom. 5:12). (2) Sin causes physical death. Until Adam ate the forbidden fruit and introdcued this poison into his body, he was not subject to physical death. The day he ate it he became a dying creature, though the process took almost a thousand years to complete. The life span of his descendants was steadily reduced as the effects of the poison became cumulative. Sins are Symptoms of the disease All men now inherit this disease. It is inherited by Adam's descendants through natural generation. The infective agent appears to be passed on through the male seed. Man is inevitably a sinner because he is constitutionally diseased. (2) It effectually marred human behavior, making all men sinful by nature and Spiritually dead. For by one man's disobedience many were made sinners...(Rom. 5:19). Sins cause spiritual death. Although every man begins life as a mortal creature, spiritual death occurs only when one becomes accountable for his behavior. It is not sin, but sins, which break our communion with God. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that he will not hear. (Isaiah 59:2) I end this post with "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, look, the Lamb of God, who takes the "sin" of the world." John 1:29 (NIV). God bless |
||||||
3 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | Hank | 74673 | ||
inmyheart: Call sin a disease if you prefer, but I'd rather think that it would be more in harmony with the Bible to call sin a transgression or disobedience of God's commands. Cancer is a disease, but is it a sin? Murder is a sin, but is it a disease? --Hank | ||||||
4 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | CDBJ | 74678 | ||
Hello Hank, I once heard a pastor state that sin, in the singular is our old nature, and the reason that we commit personal acts or sins, in the plural. That old nature resides with us, in the body, as believers along with our new nature. At any point in time we are under the controlled of one nature or the other; i.e. it’s an absolute, not a little of one or the other, but 100 percent. When we are being lead by the Spirit, God is in control. When we give in to the dictates of our old sin nature God is grieved or quenched and we fall out of fellowship. In order to put him back in control we must exercise the function of I John 1:9. He never leaves us or forsakes us but he just isn’t in control. Paul says that we are carnal, as it were, and we imitate the unbeliever. Check out the word flesh in the following verses then notice the connection at the bottom. Romans 8:5 (KJV) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Romans 9:8 (KJV) That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 1 Cor. 5:5 (KJV) To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Galatians 5:16 (KJV) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:19 (KJV) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Ephes. 2:3 (KJV) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Col. 2:11 (KJV) In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Col. 2:23 (KJV) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Hebrews 9:13 (KJV) For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 1 Peter 3:21 (KJV) The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 2:18 (KJV) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 1 John 2:16 (KJV) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. All of these verses contain the word flesh, which comes to us from the Koine Greek word (SARX) and it is synonymous with the old sin nature. It makes a lot of sense to me and by reading in, the old sin nature, instead of flesh it appears to work every time. Just my two cents worth, CDBJ |
||||||
5 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | Robert Nicholson | 74691 | ||
Greetings CDBJ: Thanks for the response. When I posed the question I was not playing on words. I believe that "sin" refers to our condition before God in contrast to our actions or "sins" resulting from that condition. "Wherefore as by one man sin entered the world and death by sin so that death was passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" Romans 5:6 What is our condition before God? In Romans 3 it is clear that in our natural condition we are against God and our walk is away from him. In Romans 6:17 we are reminded that before we were saved "you were the (bond)servants of sin" in this state we had no freedom in fact we were dead to God Eph. 2:1 In Romans 5 we are reminded that by Adam's disobedience to God, "sin entered the world and death by sin..." As noted by innmyheart, physical death was passed upon the human race. However, I believe that spiritual death was passed upon all men. In Romans 5:6 in our sinful state we are described as "without strength". Which would high light the truth which has been mentioned many times that there is absolutely no way whereby we can please God in our natural condition as far as our salvation is concerned. In Eph. 2:1 we read "you hath he quickened (made alive) who were dead in tresspasses and in sin" Just a few thoughts Robert |
||||||
6 | Difference between sin and sins? | Rom 5:12 | CDBJ | 74703 | ||
Greetings Robert, I would concur with you on that. I think in order to explain death, as the Bible speaks of it, it helps to look at it from the standpoint of what Adam experienced. When Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, the way I see it, he died spiritually that very day and as a result of that spiritual death he set the wheels in motion for his physical death. Dear old grandfather Adam wasn’t able to procreate his species the same way that he was created, i.e. with a body, soul, and spirit. Thus the part of us that has association with God, our spirit, is inoperative at the point of birth. 1 Cor. 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. We are born physically alive and spiritually dead; thus the need to be born again of the Spirit of God. John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The word see, IEDO in the Greek, is not visual inspection but a mental perception. He in essence brings our spirit to life and reveals to us that we are his, with a new nature. Ephes. 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: My two cents worth, have a nice day, CDBJ |
||||||