Sins

[Jesusislord]

A comment in another thread made me want to ask this to the Christians on this forum.

I will answer these as best I can....

What is sin? This is a very difficult question....I will use reverse psychology (For purposes of this question). Jesus said in Matthew 5.8 - "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God". For me anything that is impure is contrary to God and anything that falls short I consider as sin.

Do you sin every day? Yes

Do you believe thoughts can be sins? Yes, very much so!

Do you think that you have to act on thoughts for them to become sins? No - Often thoughts in themselves are considered as sinful eg If I unfairly pass judgment on somebody (In thought).

Are some sins worse than others? Yes

Are there some things that you consider sins that most people don't? Are there some things that you don't think are sins that other people do?(Hopefully, those two questions made sense). I consider using God and Jesus' names via the swearing versions as being a sin...Most people think that this is normal. I cant think of a particular instance - However from Jesus' time he often healed people on what was considered a holy day eg Healing the sick on The Sabbath...The religious folk at the time considered this as sinful and like Jesus I would disagree.

Paul said that he was the worst sinner in 1 Timothy 1:15. Do you agree? How could he be the worst sinner? I agree completely with St Paul. Remember he was the big Christian persecutor - It was only after his supernatural conversion (On the road to Damascus) that he gave his life to God. What happened to Paul, happens to Christians everyday and when they convert, they will always classify themselves as previously being the worst sinner....A conversion is always profound and like St Paul all those years ago we as new reborn Christians are in awe that despite all of us being sinners, God still has the capacity to forgive us and welcome us into his Kingdom.

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I found this article on sin and wondered how some of our resident Christians felt about what it says

http://www.odfellowship.org/2015/02/20/i...er-i-know/

While I factually know that a certain person has killed thousands of people and some of the motive behind it, when we are talking about sin against God on a heart level, I may have killed tens upon tens of thousands. On the heart level you can kill people multiple times and in multiple ways. On this level, my sin skyrockets into heights I can’t even see. And it goes way beyond just anger and murder. Just try to think about every idle word, every lust, every deed shirked, every opportunity not seized, every person ignored, or even not loved well, every Bible lesson I taught but did not live out, every impulse of greed. There is just no way to calculate the immensity of heart sin. So that serial killer has nothing on me. All I know is that he killed and raped lots of people. That is bad, but it is just a drop in the bucket compared to me. I can’t know his heart level sin. It might be really bad, but I will never know. What I do know, or at least what I know with guilt-searing accuracy, is all the sin that has happened in my heart.

If you are religious, do you agree with this writer? Do you believe that anger against another person is the same thing as raping and killing that same person?