Posted on 10/01/2018 11:17:35 PM PDT by metmom
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Sin is pervasive and deadly.
When the early church father Chrysostom remarked, “I fear nothing but sin,” he correctly identified sin as the greatest threat any person faces. Sin mars all the relationships people are involved in: with other people, with themselves, and, most significantly, with God. Sin causes suffering, disease, and death in the physical realm and also causes spiritual death—eternal separation from God in Hell.
Because sin is so deadly, we need to carefully define it, so we can understand and avoid it. First John 3:4 sums up the essence of sin when it says, “Sin is lawlessness.” Sin is refusing to obey God’s law; it is rejecting God’s standards; it is, in fact, living as if God did not exist.
In 1 John 5:17, the apostle John adds to his definition of sin, describing it as “unrighteousness.” James defines sin as failing to do what is good (James 4:17). Paul defines it as lack of faith (Rom. 14:23). Sin is the ultimate act of ingratitude toward the God “who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy” (1 Tim. 6:17).
Sin pollutes the sinner, prompting Paul to refer to it as that “defilement of flesh and spirit” (2 Cor. 7:1) from which sinners are in desperate need of cleansing. No amount of human effort, however, can cleanse a person of sin. Such self-effort is as futile as attempting to change the color of one’s skin (Jer. 13:23). Only through the death of Jesus Christ, the perfect sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:12), is forgiveness and cleansing available (1 John 1:7).
Sin is the only thing that God hates (cf. Jer. 44:4), and so must believers (Ps. 97:10; Amos 5:15). The great Puritan writer Thomas Watson noted that a prerequisite for sanctification is such hatred for sin. Renew your commitment today to grow in your relationship with the Lord by hating evil (Prov. 8:13).
Suggestions for Prayer
Pray for yourself and others that you would not be deceived by the subtleness of sin (Heb. 3:13).
For Further Study
Identify the sins you struggle with the most. Using a concordance and other study tools, find out what the Bible says about those sins. Form a biblical plan of attack to combat them.
Adam did not convey the message correctly as he added to it.
God did not tell Adam to not touch it as Eve claimed.
God still holds Adam responsible for sin entering the world. Eve may have taken the first bite, but Adam, who was with her, did not stop her as he was responsible to do..
how predictable. just like a pissy little child.
Adam conveyed the message correctly, she added to it.
How do you know?
I guess either one is an option then. Either he didn’t convey it correctly and he added to it, or she added to it.
Either way, he heard her tell the serpent incorrectly and he didn’t correct her. He failed to intervene and take his God given role.
Perhaps he wasnt expecting her to be so easily and quickly deceived and take a bite before he realized what she was going to do. Why would he have any reason to think she was going to do that, after he just heard her say gods warning not toveat it, albeit with her added portion on it.
Hes there like, great she knows shes not supposed to and she told te snake that. Then it says the snake told her otherwise, then immediately she looked at the fruit and took,a bite. I could see this go down very quickly before Adam could figure out whatshe was going to do.
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