NSFW Anon Archived Unless You Stop Loving Sin: Repentance is a change of perception and direction (QRV)
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NSFW Anon Archived Unless You Stop Loving Sin: Repentance is a change of perception and direction (QRV)
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[–] 16982335? 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
But, what one person considers a "sin", other people see as normal human behavior. (e.g. taking drugs). Why should I repent for something that is not wrong? Marijuana should be legal. I break the law by smoking it. It's a bad law. I won't repent for doing that.
[–] 16982385? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think there are temptations always around us, it's not up to man to decide the 5 W's of sin...we're born into it. The laws of man aren't always, rarely are ever, aligned with Gods. That's my perspective. I like how the Author of the Article says: We’re tempted every day in a thousand different directions. Therefore, we must constantly reorient ourselves back toward God, seeing him anew and pursuing him afresh. As Martin Luther noted, “When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said ‘Repent,’ he intended that the entire life of believers should be repentance.”
I know I am one person, but I do not think you smoking weed or whatever is wrong, unhealthy in my eyes, but not wrong.
[–] 16983730? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Plus one for bringing in Luther, he had a lot of wisdom on sin and temptation for the Christian.
I still marvel at the paradox that the world and, to be honest, most of the church, mainly if not exclusively focus on sins as outward behaviors, because they're cut and dry, black and white, and easily identifiable in others (downstream legalisms, judgmentalisms). Meanwhile the teachings of the New Testament are clearly focused on sin as a matter of the heart, of overall attitude, and the more complex dynamics of how we relate to one another. When one digs into Jesus' teachings and sees what he's really getting at, the heart is exposed in all its falsehoods and hidden idolatries and hypocrisies... in that condition how could we even have time or energy to wring hands over the sinful behavior of everyone else in this hyper tabloid culture?
[–] 16983588? ago
The way that is cleared is allowing the fundamentals of God's revealed will in his commandments define what sin truly is. The moral law of God is focused on how one respects God as Lord and creator to whom we owe allegiance, and on how we treat our neighbor. Sin has to do with inter-relational matters of utmost importance, not do's and don'ts of what goes into the body.
[–] 16983091? ago
Relativism.
What is considered sin, to God, is objective, not subjective. Sin is sin is sin. It does not change over time.
[–] 16984965? ago
So, a plant that God put on earth is sinful?