I really appreciate your wise and respective responses. I think the argument of manipulation of the Bible is a topic for later time and that's why I added, if we truly and fully believe the Scriptures as God's word in my last response. God bless.Maddie Atkinson wrote: ↑06 Feb 2021, 06:17But surely, in a way, that is just interpreting the Bible in a way that it doesn't explicitly state? The Bible has been translated and mistranslated so many times, how can we know for sure that it has not been manipulated by church leaders (which they have done before)?Orizon wrote: ↑06 Feb 2021, 01:11Maddie Atkinson wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 16:26
I agree with you to an extent, but there are laws that are not written in the Bible that the Church will promote as sin. For example, the Church promotes sex before marriage as sin. The Bible talks about immoral sex, or abnormal sex, but not sex before marriage. So in this sense, sin is man made as this was an idea used to control people, specifically women
I understand what you are saying but the New Testament of the Bible quotes, "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." 1 Corinthians:6:18. Fornication (sexual intercourse, especially on the part of an unmarried person) is a sin. The way we see sin now is different from God's view of it. The only way we can see it as He sees it is through the Scriptures (if we truly and fully believe the Scriptures as God's word).
Do you agree with the author's opinions on sin?
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Re: Do you agree with the author's opinions on sin?
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I do agree that churches and religious groups have added to and overly emphasized the checklists of thou shall and thou shall not which produces a sense that we can and should do better on our own.
None of us is better than anyone else. We all fall short. We all need God's grace. The point of acknowledging our sinful state is to realize we can't be better without God. We need Him.
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I also agree with the author that selfishness is the mother of all sins. This is because we commit all other sins out of selfishness.
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Maddie Atkinson wrote: ↑06 Dec 2020, 06:31I agree with this. Most sin are man made and some just common sense. It also flow from the moral values that have been instilled from birth.mariana90 wrote: ↑05 Dec 2020, 22:46 I do believe a lot of the sins are man-made, like the ones you listed. However, I don't think all of them are. When Jesus says "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself", he's pretty drawing a line in regards to Christian behavior: anything we do that purposefully harms others is a sin.
Like you said though "love your neighbor as you love yourself " it is clear here that is commonly known to humanity to stop at loving him/herself. So this law could not stem from man himself which encompasses ideals of selfishness.
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