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Understanding Sin
If sin has already been fully paid for, what’s the point of urging people to live better, more upright lives? Take someone addicted to porn or drugs. If those things make them happy, why should they quit? If everything is “paid in full” and there are no spiritual consequences, then why not just eat, drink, and be merry? Who cares?
Some will say there are temporal consequences, just not spiritual ones. Drug use, for example, can shorten someone’s life. But if they’re guaranteed heaven anyway, why does a shorter life matter?
We’re even seeing societies move in this direction. In places like Canada, the government is now telling people who no longer want to live that it’s acceptable to choose assisted suicide, and doctors will help them do it. Is this wrong? Why?
And if a woman wants an abortion, ending the life of her baby, why not, if the price of sin is already paid and no eternal consequences remain? The baby is going to heaven, so who cares?
(I know this is dark but this is real life things people are facing)
thank you
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I believe we are still under the law of love. To love God and others, including ourselves. If we allow the Spirit of God, who lives in us, to work in us , by His power we can be transformed. I try to look at things through a lens of love. Are my words or actions loving?
With your examples of drugs and pornography. The illegal drug trade is not only harmful to your body, it is also harmful to the people involved in the drug trade. Pornography can involve sex trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable people. It also effects your brain negatively and changes how you view people, as objects rather than your brother or sister. Do these examples produce love, in particular agape love?
Have you seen Shawn’s teaching on the tree of knowledge of good and evil? The Spirit of man vs the Spirit of God? I also highly recommend his verse by verse teachings of Romans. Especially Romans 5 and 6.
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This is an AWESOME question. We will bring it up on our call in show if that’s okay with you? I can also attempt to give an answer here in writing too – give me a minute to get back to it. But I love it, and think there is a VERY important role in the decisions we make in our lives on this earth, and that they very much have consequences… but we try to untie them from damnation and estrangement from God. It is heavy though because we still find there to be rewards in the afterlife nonetheless.
all to say – lots to discuss and we definitely will bring it up! Thanks so much for the question.
hope others here in Yeshuans also add their thoughts!
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Feel free to answer it on the show.
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Will do!
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Hey William, we forgot it was Thanksgiving this Thursday, and actually won’t be doing the calls until next week. We will address it on that show, and also I’ll come back with a written answer before that as well!
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