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NASB | Galatians 5:8 This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 5:8 This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to freedom in Christ]. |
Bible Question: PLEASE DEFINE SICKNESS OF SIN AND DO WE SUFFER FROM IT, TTHANKS |
Bible Answer: Dear Robert, You asked for a definition: Sin is described as a sickness, a brokenness, a blemish, a wandering from the path, crookedness, rebellion, a trespass, a transgression, a debt, a desolation, a drunken swerving, a oppressive toil, an oppressive task master, an oppressive husband, the flesh, etc. Search the scripture and see if you can find others. One must clearly understand that a metaphor is a figure of speech. Sin is not actually each of these things, but each characterizes sin. To me, I often think of sin as the elephant in the room or the visitor that will not leave or as an infection, etc. But even these things are only metaphors. They help us understand sin, but they are not sin in themselves. The field of theology that treats of sin is called hamartiology -- a phrase you might not hear in your particular type of congregation. This is from the Apostle Paul who uses the word hamartano in Romans 3:23. R. C. Sproul speaks of sin thus, "In the least transgression I set myself above the authority of God, doing insult to His majesty, His holiness,and His sovereign right to govern me. Sin is a revolutionary act in which the sinner seeks to depose God from His throne. Sin is a presumption of supreme arrogance in that the creature vaunts his own wisdom above that of the Creator, challenges divine omnipotence with human impotence, and seeks to usurp the rightful authority of the cosmic Lord." The best biblically orthodox definition of sin I have found is from the theologian Millard Erickson who said, "Sin is any lack of conformity, active or passive, to the moral law of God. This may be a matter of act, of thought, or of inner disposition or state." Sin is not just something you commit, nor is it just some righteousness you fail to perform, nor is it (as Arminians teach) a just a violation of the moral law of God, nor is it just a failure to conform to God's righteousness, nor is it just a failure to love God and His word and His people. It is all of these things together and some. You asked do we suffer from it? We suffer directly from it when we are its victims. We suffer indirectly from it as it pervades the world. We suffer from its consequence when we fail to receive the propitiation of sin through Christ. We suffer from it as a privation or lack. We suffer from it as believers through the discipline of our Lord. We suffer from it in eternal death from God's wrath. If you take these examples, I can well imagine that you will find further examples in Scripture. I rather hoped that I didn't need to give you the Scriptural basis of each. In Him, Doc |
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