Thanks for all your insight guys!
@ outlawauron, any one who reads their bible, specifically Pauls writings in the new testament will know that in Romans he says God will understand when people sin without knowing it’s sinful but to those who sin knowingly they can expect separation unless they repent. Some where else it says that there is no sacrifice that can save you if you continue to sin once you know it’s a sin and there’s others I’m just no good at actually quoting where they are. So it is a known fact that a Christian cannot repeatedly commit habitual offences if they have so called “repented” of their old life style. They need to repent and leave those habits behind. Accentual slip ups that spring up on you God lovingly understands.
“If you love me, you will obey me” is something Jesus says, and it’s kind of like a wife saying “if you love me you will respect me and treat me well and NOT cheat on me” you have to look at what sin actually is and it’s anything that we do that rebels against God, it can be looked at as cheating on God with our own desire. So it is true that we all fall short, that is a given, but Paul says a life lived through the spirit is pleasing to God, he says we can not please him on our own. And according to Paul a life living in the spirit empowers us to choose not to sin, with out the spirit we have no hope because we would be enslaved to our sinful nature pleasing our own selfish desire.
If it’s so easy to love and honour a wife it shouldn’t be such a far fetched idea to love and honour God, especially when we take on the image and mindset of Christ that comes through living a life in his spirit.
Anything that you know is wrong, or even think could be wrong becomes a sin to you, that is also said in the bible throughout the new testament teachings. So if you think that God may not be happy with something your doing then stop doing it, you will only harm yourself. Some Christians think that drinking alcohol is wrong so there for it would be sinful for then to go against their convictions, some people will only eat certain food, but the bible says you can eat anything and you can drink anything but its over indulgence and drunkenness that are the actual sins that apply to every one.
Burning a flag is considered a federal offence or something is it not? No bodies been hurt or killed but isn’t it the symbolism behind it that is look at and considered an offence. So why would the act of murder or mindless killing on a virtual scale be looked at any different? Anything that goes against Jesus’s example of LOVE is rebellious against God weather its an image, a word, a thought, and act, a simulation, it is all offensive to the love and life that God created and is sin.
So before you didn’t know but know you do
