Answering a man who has issues with God’s laws about sin: “Why should we all be guilty because of one man’s (Adam) sin.” My reply: Where were you when all that we see and know WAS CREATED? What do you think you know – that can genuinely stand in judgment over the wisdom, power and LOVE of our Creator God and His Son?
God’s laws, principles, promises are perfect and eternal, but man’s are clearly not when they oppose God’s laws and principles for life: as we have seen in our sick hostile world throughout time. God’s Son died to forgive us of all the thoughtless/vain/corrupt ways by which we UNintentionally harm ourselves ‘personally,’ and ways that purposely take and end life before it’s time. To think YOU (or anyone) are ‘without any sin,’ makes you ‘self-deceived’ and so completely blind/lost.
Sin is in all human beings! A simple lie, makes you a sinner. Where does SIN come from? Why is it still in us? If God was only about LAWS, it would never change anyone or anything! AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH GOVERNMENT! Politicians keep making new laws thinking it will stop people from doing what lawmakers don’t want people to do, or not do. Is it working? HELL NO! Just makes government bigger and bigger, more and more foolish and laughable to God! WORLDLY lawmakers are no different from anyone else! “There is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by HIS grace THROUGH the redemption that is IN Christ Jesus.” “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” “There is NO righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.” “Who can say, ‘I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin.’?”
Without the truth and love of Jesus Christ Son of God – mankind is LOST, even though he thinks he is not. “It was God’s law that showed me my sin. for example: I would never have known that coveting is wrong if God’s law had not said, ‘You must not covet.’ But my sin-nature used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power. At one time I lived without understanding God’s law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life, and I died for my sins. So I discovered that God’s laws and commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead. Sin took advantage of those commands and DECEIVED ME; it used the commands to kill me. But still, God’s Law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good…..But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used that which was and is good – to bring about my condemnation to death; to die for my own sins. So we can see how terrible sin really is. IT USES GOD’S GOOD COMMANDS FOR ITS OWN EVIL PURPOSES.” It uses God’s GOO commands for its own EVIL purposes….So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself… But I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s Law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord…So now there is NO condemnation for those who BELONG to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to Him, the power of the life-giving indwelling HOLY Spirit has freed you from the POWER of sin that leads to death.”
THE LORD OUR GOD BE PRAISED and WORSHIPPED! Now I live the rest of my days in His peace and love, quick to repent, fulfilled by His grace and promises to me that I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCE each and every day!