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| The Fall of Man and the Perfect Salvation of God: |
| James Anthony [email] ( Tanzania, United Republic of ) |
2009-08-03 Views
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Sin is a universal problem. How did
sin come into the world? What is its results? What is the God's attitude toward sin? And How God has saved such mankind?
Sin is any ffailure to conform to the moral Law of God in act, attitude, or nature. Sin is here defined in relation to God and His moral Law. Sin includes not only stealing, lying or commiting murder, but also attitudes that are contrary to the attitudes God requires to us.
We see this cleary in the Ten Commandments, which not only prohibit sinful actions but also wrong attitudes: "You shall not covet your neighbor's house...." You shall not cvet your neighbor's wife...." Exodus 2:17.
The term 'SIN' has three aspects: (1) Disobedience to God's Law (2)Violation of relationships with people, And (3) Rebellion against God, which is the most basic concept. The nature of sin is-Adam's failure to listen to God's commandments (Gen 3:17). This was the nature of Adam's sin. When compared to Noah's righteousness and blameless, we note that Noah was righteous and blameless because he listened and did everything as God has Commanded him cf. 6:9, 22; 7;5; See also Job's blameless and fear of the Lord (Job 1:1). Adam failed to listen to God, instead he listened to his wife (Gen 33;17). As we believers in the gospel of Water and the Spirit, We should be careful against people whom we love an live or relate with them . They might be a source of us to obey or disobey God as Adam decided to disobey his creator- God in order to please his wife- Eve.
So, when the OT, and the same could be said about some passages in the NT, describes the heart or Kiddneys as the seat of thoughts and feelings, it is essentially expressing the activities of the mind. may English and Swahili translators understand "MIND" in this sense. The depravity of the mankind described noy only in terms of behavior, but especially in the terms of the Fallen mind/thoughts(makkhshevot)
Every scheme in man's magination was nothing but evil. The mind has been perverted. An emphasis made again in Gen 8:21.
Desire is a nominal for of the word used in Gen 2:7,19 to describe the formaton of man and animal from the soil. God was the potter, fashioning man. Now man himself has become the potter, fashioning evil thoughts. What God forms is beautiful; What man forms repulsive, perpetually. Fainally, this forms the reader of that kind of malase is a chronic condition, not a sporadic lapse.
Therefore, sin came into the world through man (Adam) who stands as a familyhead of the human race. As, such God sees humans in Adam and through Adam, In the covenant of creation. God sees the actual sins as committed against the Genesis 2 command. In this view, Adam stands before God as the figurehead of the entire human race.
God's attitude toward sin is that He hates sin, no matter who does; Christians or unbelievrs. The defference is that believers sins are forgiven through the baptism of Jesus, His death, shed blood and His ressurrection. Christians are the forgiven sinners who are going to Heaven. Sin separates people with God who saved and made them the righteousness of God. Those who believe in the gospel of Water and the Spirit should live holy life In God's church by placing their faith in the righteousness of God, Praising, and worshiping and serving their creator who saved them from their sins.
We are together in the gospel of Water and the Spirit.
James A. Makulla
jamloya@hotmail.com www.nlmbookcafe.com/blog/makulla www.nlmtanzania.com
Phone: 0712673222
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