TRUE CHRISTIANS SEE SIN IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
Jesus said that to love God entirely, to give all your love to him, is the
greatest commandment. So failure to keep this commandment is the greatest sin.
Though you do less harm by stealing a sweet than you do by murdering somebody,
the failure to love God when you disobey him is equally bad in both cases. If
there is a difference in the sins there is no difference in the sin that
accompanies them, the sin of failing to love God. All sin is the rejection of
God.
Matthew 12:34 has Jesus telling us that if you have any unrepentance in you
any good you do is telling God that you only care about good when it suits you
not that it is good. “How can you being EVIL speak GOOD things? For out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A GOOD man out of the GOOD
treasure of the heart bringeth forth GOOD things, and an EVIL man out of the
EVIL treasure bringeth forth EVIL things”.
Jesus said we must agapao or love our neighbour as ourselves. Agapao is
self-sacrificing love. You cannot have self-sacrificing love for yourself. Jesus
then was not approving of our self-love but disapproving of it. He was only
saying we love ourselves not that it was right to and that we must love others
like that. He said too that if you do all God asks you must still consider
yourself to be good for nothing (Luke 17:10). If believing disciples of Jesus
could be that bad then think how bad doubters and unbelievers must be! The
apostle said that other people must be put first (1 Corinthians 10.24).
Nobody can keep these commandments. Would you agree to suffer extreme torment
forever to save souls if God asked you to? No you would not. Would you consent
to have your baby die in horrific agony if God told you he needed this to happen
for one of his mysterious purposes?
You can't even love your neighbour as yourself so how can you love God more than
anything? By resolving to keep the two commandments, you are resolving to
destroy yourself and cripple yourself with despair, self-abhorrence and guilt.
You may be weak but God says he never commands the impossible and gives help
through prayer so if you are weak it is your own making.
It is a sin to get forgiveness from God before going to the people you have hurt
and apologising to them first.
All sin causes scandal and bad example so you have a hell of a lot of
apologising to do every day!
It is a sin to be an actor for that asks you to conjure up feelings of anger and
lust - a good actor has to feel these things to make the acting seem authentic.
Actors and actresses kissing on television must be a sin if they are married to
other people. Kissing is a sexual activity. The Church forbids nudity because
the human heart is corrupt and will take unlawful pleasure in it so it can't
allow the kissing for the same reason.
The kissing is physically cheating even if there are no feelings and if the
spouses have no problem with it. There must however be some feelings when they
can kiss each other.
It must be sinful for married couples to kiss in public for being sexual it has
to be private.
Looking at television is benefiting from the sin of others as is having a
television.
Birth control and natural family planning are sinful for they imply a lack of
trust in God as creator of life who will send babies as he sees fit.
If husbands and wives have oral sex and it is right then this contradicts nature
and implies that nature doesn't matter and if a man has a happy sexual
relationship with his horse he should. So oral sex must be sinful.
If you loved God, you would ask your local pharmacist to remove the condoms from
the counter. Worrying about looking stupid or zealous would imply you love
yourself more than God.
If you loved God, you would want to pray rather than read the paper, listen to
the radio or go to the pub. Those other things would be painful for you.
If you loved God and your neighbour as Jesus asked, your ambition in life would
be to give everything up for the poor but as an illustration and demonstration
of the gospel.
If we are to love the sinner and hate the sin that means we see an awful lot of
sin to hate. A person who doesn't believe in this but hates his enemies would be
happier. He hates a few people yes but if we hate all the sin we see we will
soon be dead from stress induced ulcers if not suicide! The law of loving sinner
and hating sin implies that you must value others and not yourself.
If we may love the sinner and love the sin or hate the sinner and the sin then
there is no point in bothering with belief in God or making a big thing of it.
To say we must love God with all our power is to imply we must hate sin with all
our power. Who can do that?
Christianity teaches that sin deserves to be hated. To say you love the sinner
and hate their sin is simply to say that the sin deserves to be punished and
hated but the sinner doesn't which makes no sense. The rule is not practical,
not helpful, and not honest. If sin deserves to be hated then the person
committing it deserves to be hated. It is only people that can deserve things.
To say sin deserves to be hated is to urge people to hate the sinner. Criminal
law needs to recognise that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are inciting to
hatred and violence and deal with them accordingly. Jesus' teaching that we must
love enemies and hate their sins means that we are to pretend that when we hate
people that it is their sins and not them that we hate and when we find we hate
them we are to feel guilty and seek repentance. That teaching is not guidance,
it is continual mental and spiritual torment.
As long as your baby is not baptised, you are keeping that baby in a state of
estrangement from God assuming the doctrine that babies need forgiveness in
baptism is correct.
You must love your baby but hate the sin in the baby so how can you be said to
love your baby?
Supporting democracy is a sin unless the people are devoted to doing the will of
God and supporting the religion he has revealed. Otherwise it is just supporting
ignorance and disobedience.
If the Bible is God's word, it is the most important book on earth. To study
Persuasion for the state exams would be immoral. The Bible is the only
literature that should be taught in English classes.
God does miracles as signs of his power and that he exists and does them to draw
followers to the one true religion. To assume as unbelievers do that miracles
don't happen is wrong and closing the heart to God. It is refusing to admit that
the evidence speaks. We must not think, "If a man is dead three days and rises
again, we must not assume that supernatural or miraculous forces were behind it
but should assume that there were unknown natural forces behind it that cannot
be explained. If we assume that a strange event is a miracle then we have no
right to complain if somebody else assumes something different. We refuse to
believe that if an assumption is to be made, the most natural one should be
made." But it will be hard not to think that. And to think it is to deny that
there is any evidence that God has spoken to any religion.
If you really love God, you will adore his book and other books will be
distasteful to you. You honour God by honouring his book.
The doctrine of the Bible implies that you must be born again. This suggests
that you should be in the lowest pit of depression and feel and know you are
totally useless and then God breathes his grace into you and you turn to him and
become a holy child of God. Being born again involves knowing that you can do
nothing to please God and he must do it all. Most converts to born again
Christianity pay lip service to the idea that all they did was sin. The true
born again Christian feels the conviction of the Holy Spirit and understands how
all his actions were sins.
Roman Catholicism cannot be considered to be true Christianity for it does not
deploy the doctrine that the Holy Spirit must speak to your heart and convict
you to yourself of utter sin. On the contrary, it rejects that doctrine entirely
and opposes it. Most of Protestantism can't be considered true Christianity
either for many have not had the conviction experience which is essential for
being really born again and becoming a real Christian. The doctrine is so
important that the Roman Church must be considered to be antichrist.
Christianity thrives on being disobeyed but up to a point. This is hardly much
of an endorsement of the religion!