{"id":2216,"date":"2017-08-21T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2022-01-26T23:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:44:26","slug":"implications-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"Implications of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong> page.]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only a few decades ago, the majority of US citizens acknowledged the existence and consequences of an entity called <em>sin<\/em>. A vast number of our citizens now deny sin\u2019s existence\u2014by their deeds, if not by their words. But what if there is such a thing as sin? When one considers the implications of <em>sin<\/em>, he may discover why so many have denied its reality. <em>Sin <\/em>implies the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The existence of God<\/strong>. The simplest definition of <em>sin<\/em> is disobedience of God, but if there is no sin, there is no God\u2014just what many wish. The atheist has no objective basis for identifying any behavior as \u201cmoral,\u201d \u201csinful,\u201d or \u201crighteous.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The holiness of God<\/strong>. He is the standard of purity, righteousness, and holiness, and sin contradicts and offends these absolutes of the Creator.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The law of God. <\/strong>Sin does not exist in the absence of God\u2019s law: \u201cBut where there is no law, neither is there transgression\u201d (Rom 4:15b). The existence of sin implies the existence of God\u2019s law, for \u201csin is the transgression of the law\u201d (1 John 3:4, KJV). Those who insist upon an <em>all\u2013grace\/no-law<\/em> \u201cgospel\u201d err greatly, denying the existence of any law from God in the Christian Age. The New Testament explicitly calls itself \u201claw\u201d (Rom. 8:2; 1 Cor. 9:21; Gal. 6:2; Jam. 1:25).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The justice of God.<\/strong> God has required man\u2019s obedience to His law from the beginning (Gen. 2:16\u201317). Perfect justice demands condemnation of and retribution for sinful behavior because it offends His absolute purity: \u201cFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness\u201d (Rom. 1:18). \u201cThe wages of sin is death\u201d (Rom. 6:23).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The mercy and grace of God.<\/strong> God is rich in mercy and grace (Eph. 2:4, 7), through which He has provided for our redemption. Were it not so, all would be lost, \u201cfor all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God\u201d (Rom 3:23).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The free will of men.<\/strong> God did not create robots (who cannot sin), but men, who could choose to obey or disobey Him (i.e., sin). He did not prevent Eve or Adam from eating the forbidden fruit. He did not force Noah to build the ark. While God detests and despises sin, He will never force men to serve Him. Rather, He gently invites them through His Son (Mat. 11:28\u201331).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The accountability of men.<\/strong> God allows men to reject His law and mercy, yet all will give an account to Jesus as <strong>Judge<\/strong> Whom they rejected as <strong>Savior<\/strong> (John 12:48; 2 Cor. 5:10).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The immortality of the soul.<\/strong> That men must account for sin in the Judgment by Christ demands the existence of a soul that survives death and will never die\u2014either with or apart from God forever.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, November 13, 2015.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution: <\/strong>From <em>TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles\u00a01 page.]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only a few decades ago, the majority of US citizens acknowledged the existence and consequences of an entity called sin. A vast number of our citizens now deny sin\u2019s existence\u2014by their&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=2216\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  Implications of Sin<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,91,135,115,116,44,136,15,45,117,106,51,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antinomianism","category-atheism","category-free-will","category-god","category-nature-of","category-grace","category-immortality","category-judgment","category-law","category-objective-truth","category-purity-of-life","category-sin","category-subjectivism","wpcat-131-id","wpcat-91-id","wpcat-135-id","wpcat-115-id","wpcat-116-id","wpcat-44-id","wpcat-136-id","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-45-id","wpcat-117-id","wpcat-106-id","wpcat-51-id","wpcat-113-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}