Path: paganini.bofh.team!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nightbulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: Re: What is sin? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:26:42 -0500 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:23:44 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="60254e3f23fca6a14f610385b9cd8004a58fa513"; logging-data="2558662"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:650944 On 9/18/22 00:22, Michael McLean wrote: > On 18/09/2022 3:03 pm, teslaStinker wrote: [.....] >> What is sin?   Not loving.?   Your an idiot.   Even devil's love >>   devil's > > Sin is not loving God. > > That is what I know. The scripture says: "Sin is the transgression of the law." The scripture says that to break any point in the law is to break the whole law. And what is the whole law? Love. Jesus says: Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." "This is the first and great commandment." "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love." Paul says: "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." The law is fullfilled by love, referring to the two great commands of Jesus: Love God, then love thy neighbor. This is abiding in love. Not abiding in love is sin, just as Michael McLean has said. Those who have mocked Michael for this will answer to the Father for it. And as the law is fullfilled by love, sin is fullfilled by not loving. To sin is to lack love. That is the root meaning of sin. If God is love, and love fulfilleth the whole law, and the greatest commandment is to love God, and keeping his commands to love one another causes men to abide in sinless love, then clearly failing to love God is the transgression of the law, and is the root of sin. There are so many declarations in scripture that love is opposite to sin, that for any man to mock the declaration shows the man is foolish. He that loves God loves his brother. He that loves not God hates his brother and is a transgressor. Sin is simply a lack of love and ardor for God the Father. Believing in a false Father or a false Jesus of one's own imagination is the same as hating the real Father and the real Jesus. All other points of the law point to this, even the first commandment of the decalogue: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." If you love God, you *won't* place anything else in place of Him. He will be first, last, and always in your doings. You will love him. Jesus said : "If you love me, keep my commandments." Jesus said : "If you love me, feed my sheep." If you love God, you are doing these things, and therefore you are not a sinner. The commandments of which he speaks are not the commands of the Law of Moses, or the Ordinances, or the Halakah, or the Mizvot or any of that ancient stuff which is done away in Christ. The commandments are those of the new covenant, summed up as Agape, or Love. Just as Michael said. Those religious people who hate Jesus, and crucify him afresh every day, in their pagan eucharist rituals, and their 'holy ordinances,' point to the old commands of the law of Moses, and try to define sin by outward acts. But sin is the inward hatred toward God and His Son. Those who mock the simple truth of the gospel, that God is love, are those who hate God. The bible calls them scoffers. The church is full of scoffers who fill the pastor's coffers because they like the lies he offers! Jesus says: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness." "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." Of those who despise the law of love Paul says: "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another" They despise us for the love we have, because they are full of hate. They prop up religious smokescreens to veil their hatred. But we who love the brethren see through these malicious masks of religious piety. We know that religion is distilled essence of bullshit. "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:" The saints are called to assemble together in the spirit, and to exhort one another to LOVE, or Agape, which is to feed each other the Lord's supper, which is bread from heaven, His Word, and the urging of his spirit. This never had anything to do with assembling in a church, or establishing a creedo or a religion. The Lord's supper is a 'love feast.' Religion does not provoke anyone to love, as Paul said to do, but rather religion is contention and division gone to seed. The religious always mock and persecute the righteous. The religious think themselves righteous, and the religious think the righteous to be cursed. Michael said rightly, "Sin is not loving God." And I say rightly, "Loving God is not sin." In writing this post I have kept the Lord's word, set down to Peter, "If you love me, feed my sheep." I have proven by my words what I believe, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God worthy of all Love and Honor. Those who mock the simple understanding that all sin is rooted in the lack of love, are lacking in godly love. -- Nightbulb https://blog.nightbulb.net Flip the night switch.