(October 21, 2015 at 9:03 pm)robvalue Wrote: Holy fuck Jesus.for the same reason that you try and reason out in the second half of your paragraph.
Why should anyone care what is a "sin"?
Quote:What does it even mean?A sin is anything (thought, action or desire) that is outside God's expressed will for us.
If their were only God's will then we would not have any choice, but to follow the will of God. Sin is the alternative to living in God's will or What He has created for us to do/live on an eternal scale with Him.
Quote:It upsets God? It makes him sad, cross, angry, perplexed, jealous, withdrawn and other very human emotions?What makes them human only? What if they did not originate with us? What if they are not only shared with us? Does that in your mind make all emotion "human?" To say "human emotion" puts you in the center of the universe and has the sun and stars revolve around you. Are you one of those people? (The earth is flat because that is my limited perception of it?)
Quote:It goes against his "purpose"? I thought we were meant to have free will,no, "free will" is never mentioned or taught in the bible. Free will is a Greek construct that the church later adapted. The bible tells us we are all slaves to sin and are bound in this life to sin. God's will for us is to see us free from sin through atonement. Meaning we are not bound by the law of sin to source our righteousness.
Quote: yet we have to do things exactly as he wants or else he starts crying?maybe if you have a OT Jewish model of Christianity. But again, the NT Church outlined in the bible is not based on living a sin free life.
Quote:If there is a god, hurting his feelings should be the least of anyone's concerns. If you really think you are worshipping something so petty that it would take away your eternal privileges because you did something that he finds a bit irritating, then your God is nothing more than a superpowered spoiled little brat.What if you just never actually read the bible for yourself and like with all of your other knowledge of the world simply let someone else tell you what to think, but tragically those in whom you trusted where completely wrong about God, Sin and redemption? That the only reason for the law was simply to identify sin in your life so you would seek redemption, rather than try and make you live a sin free life?
But rather than spend 1/2 the time reading the bible you read and research commentaries that tickle your ears and tells you what you think you already know, which alienates you to the one thing we all must have to be given "eternal privileges."
