RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 2:41 pm by Nope.)
(April 27, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(April 27, 2015 at 7:22 am)Nope Wrote: Are you saying that unbelief is one among many sins or that it is the only sin?Unbelief IS sin.
For instance adultery is not a sin, it is an attribute of sin. If I handed you a jar filled with liquid and told you it was poisonous, but you proceeded to drink it anyway, it shows you didn't believe what I said, or else you wouldn't have drunk it. Therefore the act of you drinking the poison was not your mistake, the mistake was not believing what I said. Likewise not obeying the commandments of God shows that you don't believe God, which is the sin.
As the Bible states, "wages of sin (unbelief) is death...
Quote:Jude 1
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
In order for that story to make sense, I would have to know more about the person handing me poison. Have they lied to me in the past? Is there a legitimate reason for them to hand me the poison? Does this poison look like the soda I just sat down?
If the person handing out poison supposed to be god then he/she would have to be invisible and the warning would have to come in the guise of a very old manuscript that has been translated repeatedly so that I am not certain what the original message actually was.
(April 27, 2015 at 2:33 pm)Nestor Wrote: I'm still trying to figure out where exactly sincere belief and the labeling of unbelief as "sin" meet.
"I really believe because to be in doubt is sinful" is not the same as "I really believe because I am convinced it is true based on..." One cannot have it both ways: On the one hand advocating their religion as reasonable and supported by evidence and on the other hand condemning any and all doubt as equal to dishonesty. Since most apologists do pretend their faith is reasonable, they must have not gotten the memo that unbelief is tantamount to moral depravity, which is about as unreasonable as a belief can be.
Most Christians that I know do not view doubt as sinful so I am a little confused by the definition on this thread.
A question for theists, if unbelief is sin does that mean that a Christian who believes in Jesus won't sin?
