How many people believe in God? And how many people that believe in God believe in sin? Sin is a term that is often used in church, while many Christians don’t really know the meaning of sin. As a result, they are lukewarm and indifferent towards sin and the consequences of sin in people’s lives. What about you, do you believe in sin?
Do Christians believe in sin?
Ofcourse, I believe in sin, would be the answer of most Christians. But is that true, do they really believe in sin?
If Christians would believe and would really know what sin means and what sin does to people, then many Christians would not deal with sin, the way they deal with sin today, and no longer live the way the live.
If Christians would believe in sin, they wouldn’t consider sin as normal and tolerate sin and keep sinning.
They wouldn’t be prideful and live in rebellion against God in disobedient to His Word, but they would repent of their pride and rebellion and remove sin from their lives and from their midst. (a.o. Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15; Luke 13:2-9; 24:47; John 5:14; 8:11-34; Acts 2:38; 3:19).
What does sin mean?
Sin means disobedience to God and His Word and the transgression of His laws (commandments), which are settled forever from the beginning of the creation.
Since God is the Creator of the heaven and the earth and the King of the universe, the laws of His Kingdom are eternal.
The Christians, who believe in God and through the new birth in Christ received His Spirit, shall no longer live in pride, rebellion and disobedience to God.
That’s because the Holy Spirit, Who dwells in them, doesn’t rebel and oppose God and His Word.
The true believers shall believe and obey His words and do His commandments.
Because of this, they shall live by faith after the Spirit in submission to Christ in obedience to God’s will according to His Law, and establish His Law on earth (Romans 3:31).
The unbelievers that belong to the world don’t believe in sin and hell
However, the unbelievers, who belong to the world and the ruler of the world (the devil) and the death, don’t believe in God. They don’t believe that God’s words are the truth and don’t believe in sin.
Sin doesn’t exist for the world. In fact, they mock at sin (Proverbs 14:9)).
They believe that sin and hell are lies. According to them, sin and hell are inventions of people, who tried to influence others and win them through these scare tactics for Christendom and cause them to live according to what they believed and preached.
But the unbelievers believe the words of their father, the devil, who is a liar and the father of fallen man, who lives in darkness under the authority of death.
The devil indoctrinated them with his lies, making them believe that sin and hell don’t exist and are a fable of people.
But God is not a Liar, the devil is a liar.
God revealed sin through His Word and His Spirit
God revealed sin through His righteous Word and His Holy Spirit. God revealed sin and the iniquity of man in the Bible; through His words and His Law, which reveals God’s holiness.
Then Jesus Christ, the Son and living Word of God, came in the likeness of a sinful flesh and walked in righteousness. As a spotless Lamb, Jesus took the sin and iniquity of man upon Him. As proof thereof, Jesus went to hell and defeated the death. After three days, rose as Victor from the dead.
Jesus showed that sin and the punishment of sin, which is death, and hell are real, instead of inventions of people.
Now, the Holy Spirit still testifies in the new creation of sin, of righteousness, and of the judgment of God.
The world doesn’t believe in sin and doesn’t need a sacrifice for sin
But the world doesn’t believe this truth. The world rejects this truth of God and doesn’t believe in sin and therefore lives in sin. And if you don’t believe in sin, you don’t need a sacrifice for the atonement of sin. For that reason, many people reject the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and despise His blood.
The cross is foolishness to unbelievers instead of a place of repentance, the cruxifixction of the flesh, the deliverance of the old man and the beginning of a new life on the way to eternal life.
And because the church allowed the spirit of this world to enter and has become world like, Christians have become indifferent towards sin and consider the things that God calls evil and sin, normal and good, whereby there shall come a time, that eventually the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and through His sacrifice the new birth in Him, shall disappear from the church.
People, who keep sinning don’t believe in sin
God doesn’t consider people, who don’t love Him and therefore don’t do what He says and don’t keep His commandments but serve other gods and believe in other religions and philosophies, good but evil. In contrary to the world that consider it good.
The same applies to children and adults that don’t honor their parents. God considers this evil, but the world considers it normal and approves this behavior.
Lying, stealing, idolatry, sorcery, witchcraft, fornication (cohabitation, sexual relationships outside marriage, homosexuality, porn, etc.), adultery, divorce, covetousness, hatred, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, excessive drinking and eating, etc. are also not considered evil but normal and approved.
However, all these works are not the works of the Spirit and don’t belong to the fruit of the Spirit. These works are the works of the flesh and belong to the fruit of the death that reigns in the lives of fallen man (a.o. Romans 6:9-23; Galatians 5:19-26).
Sin is the fruit of death
The world lives in darkness under the authority of the death and bears the fruit of death in the flesh which is sin.
Therefore, people who bear the fruit of death which is sin, show through their works and lives that they belong to the devil and death instead of Jesus Christ and the life.
They don’t live in the truth of the Light, that says, sin leads to death and that everyone that is born of God belongs to God and does’t keep sinning, but walks in righteousness (a.o. John 8:43-48; 1 John 2:28; 3).
But they live in the lie of darkness, that says, through the redemptive work of Christ you live in the New Covenant and under grace you can keep sinning without consequences.
But children of God don’t sin, children of the devil sin.
If Christians would believe in sin, they would consider sin as evil and repent of sin and remove the sins from their lives and walk on the narrow way, instead of tolerating sin and walking in sin as transgressors of God’s Word and Law on the broad way.
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
Romans 6:20-23
The revelation of righteousness and sin (good and evil)
Before the coming of the Holy Spirit in the new man, God kept His people that were born of the seed of Israel through obedience to the Law of Moses that revealed God’s righteousness and sin.
But before the coming of the Law of Moses, man had already a choice to obey and serve God by doing good or to not obey and serve God by doing evil.
Because after the fall; after man sinned by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, man received knowledge of good and evil in his fallen nature. Sin is revealed to all people through their conscience that bears witness of good and evil.
Therefore, on the Day of Judgment, no one can offer a legal excuse that exonerate them for their disobedience to God and their deliberate choice to keep sinning.
Because besides the fact that the creation testifies of God, everybody knows deep down inside that lying, stealing, idolatry, witchcraft, adultery, fornication, divorce, deceiving, hate, killing, etc. is not good, because the conscience testifies that these works are evil to God, Who is the Creator of the conscience of man.
The problem is, that many people’s conscience are seared with a hot iron.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron
1 Timotheüs 4:1-2
‘Be the salt of the earth’
