(April 27, 2015 at 7:22 am)Nope Wrote:Unbelief IS sin.(April 27, 2015 at 12:21 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Unbelief.Are you saying that unbelief is one among many sins or that it is the only 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.