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Sin is All About Choices – Bible.ca
The Bible teaches that sin is a matter of indivual choice (cf. Ezekiel 18). It begins with discerning good from evil (Hebrews 5:14) and then refusing the evil …
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Date Published: 7/4/2021
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Doesn’t sin also require a choice? – Quora
No, sin is thinking you ‘can’ choose. The apostle Paul sa “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
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Date Published: 12/18/2021
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Sinfulness is a Condition – but Sin is a Choice! – Peter Horrobin
Sinfulness is a Condition – but Sin is a Choice! … Just as when a baby is born to a woman in prison, the baby is also in prison, we are all born …
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Lesson 3 – Sin as Choice – Dennis Priebe
Sin, at its root, is self-love. Thus sin is always determined by our motives, in the choice to put self first. Sin is the choice to separate from God by putting …
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Is sin a choice? – June 01, 2019
We make the choice to sin because we have a sinful nature. However, we are free moral agents, meaning we do what we want to do. No one makes us …
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Date Published: 11/18/2022
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What is the New Theology, part 5: Is Sin Choice or Nature?
In the Bible we never find guilt passed on from father to son apart from a personal choice by the son to participate in the father’s sin. Few indeed present the …
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Date Published: 7/3/2021
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SIN or GOD – THE CHOICE IS YOURS | Kingdom Revelator USA
A reflection on Mark 10:17-31 by RoseMary Joy. THE RICH MAN. One day, a man approached Jesus and asked him what he must do to inherit eternal life.
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Date Published: 3/29/2021
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Sin is All About Choices
Sin is all about choices
Throughout history, people have used just about every imaginable excuse to justify sin in their lives. Think of the time at the foot of Sinai – in the midst of Israel’s evil idolatry – when Aaron tried to justify his poor choice. When he was questioned about the calf that he made for the Israelites to worship at their request, he said to Moses, “And I said to them, ‘If anyone has gold, let him break it.’ So they gave she gave it to me, and I poured it into the fire, and this calf came out” (Exodus 32:24). Whether it was a one-off act or a recurring sin, statements like “The devil made me do it,” “I had no choice,” or “I couldn’t help myself” were often heard. Yet such thinking is alien and contrary to the Word of God.
The Bible teaches that sin is a matter of individual choice (cf. Ezekiel 18). It begins with discerning good from evil (Hebrews 5:14) and then rejecting evil and choosing good (Isaiah 7:15). A sure and constant pattern for such thinking can be clearly established from the beginning of time.
In the Garden, Adam and Eve were given free will and some very specific instructions. They could eat of the fruit of any tree except one, which God declared forbidden. When tempted by Satan, Eve made the wrong choice – she ate the forbidden fruit, just like Adam (Genesis 3:1ff). Although Eve blamed Satan and Adam on Eve, they all bore the consequences of their individual sins since each made the choice to commit that sin. Pointing the finger otherwise does not justify sin or remove the consequences.
Similarly, Moses committed a sin when, instead of glorifying God and obeying his instructions, he glorified Aaron and himself and chose not to obey God’s command. This incident is found in Numbers 20:7-13. The Israelites needed water, and God specifically instructed Moses how to provide that water (verse 8). Moses did not accurately copy the instructions (verses 10-11), so he suffered the consequences of his wrong choice. Even if the decision to sin is made in the heat of the moment, the consequences remain.
King David is another testimony that sin is a matter of individual choice and God will hold man accountable. One evening, while walking on his roof, David found himself in an awkward situation. A woman (not his wife) was bathing where she could be seen. David, now faced with a choice, succumbed to temptation—rather than turning away from the compromising situation. In this way, one sin led to another—a great evil was soon committed, for which David had severe consequences (2 Samuel 11-12). Even when faced with a tempting situation, we still have the ability to turn away and avoid its consequences—making our actions inexcusable.
In truth, the examples are limitless. Sin is all about choices. James wrote: “Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for if he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. No one should say when being tempted, “I am being tempted of God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt any. But everyone is tempted when drawn away and enticed by his own desires. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has grown out, brings forth death” (James 1:12-15). From this passage we can see some simple facts about sin, temptation, and choice.
God does not tempt man. God may allow man to be tempted (cf. Job’s temptation by Satan), but He does not tempt man directly. In fact, God is faithful to any temptation that man suffers, “not allowing you to be tempted beyond your ability, but will prepare with temptation a way of flight, that you may be able to endure it” (1 Cor .Corinthians 10:13). This verse is true proof that as individuals we must bear the burden of choice with each and every sin!
We are tempted by our own desires. We often put ourselves in bad situations. We considered the example of King David choosing to be lured and being lured in turn. Similarly, people are doing the same today. For example, men and women often engage in compromising situations with persons of the opposite sex who are not their spouses. All too often the result is fornication, infidelity, and broken families. Likewise, when alcoholics frequent frequenting of establishments serving alcohol, they become sinful. Consider the folly of recovering drug addicts who choose to befriend those who abuse drugs (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:33). The list is unlimited. The fact is, we choose our circumstances, be it our workplace, our companions, or our surroundings. Why do we burden ourselves with situations in which we are sure to stumble and commit sin?
Temptation is the birthplace of sin. We must realize that we have not sinned until we give in to our temptations. This does not mean that we should push the threshold of temptation to the maximum. Rather, we should know that even when tempted, we do not have to give in! We can still flip it! We can still avoid sin! We just have to say NO! Therefore, the Spirit teaches us to “abstain from every form of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22). We are instructed to “resist the devil, and he will flee from us” (James 4:7). We are told to “flee from sexual immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18). We are commanded to “detest evil, cling to good” (Romans 12:9). We must acknowledge that even in the heat of temptation, while Satan is cranking up the thermostat, we choose to avoid sin by not giving the devil room (Ephesians 4:27)!
In fact, sin is all about choices. Every day of our lives we make choices between right and wrong, good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable, pleasant and not pleasant, truth and error. These choices will determine our eternity. In the end it is a choice between life and death! It is important to understand that it is one thing to know right from wrong and quite another to choose right over wrong. Ask yourself: “What decisions am I making?”
By Jonathan L. Perz
From exhibition files 16.3; March 2009
http://www.bible.ca/
Doesn’t sin also require a choice?
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but Sin is a Choice! — Peter Horrobin
Just as when a baby is born to a woman in prison, the baby is also in prison, we are all born into this world prisoners of sin (we are sinful by nature). We are all born to parents who are themselves suffering the consequences of their own sin and that of their parents. Or as the psalmist David put it, “My mother conceived me in sin” (Psalm 51:5). Sinfulness is therefore an inherited condition of the human heart.
Each of us has a carnal nature that instinctively wants to respond to the pull of the sins of the flesh. None of us are exempt from having the potential for such carnal desires that have a habit of relentlessly pulling at the strings of our hearts! But there is a world of difference between craving flesh (inherent sinfulness) and doing things that are wrong (actual sin!). None of us are exempt from sinfulness, but we can all choose whether or not we actually sin!
On vacation this summer we had great fun putting crab and lobster pots on the seabed and then going back a few days later to see what we caught.
The lobster in the picture gave us a very tasty dinner a few hours later! But how was this lobster caught?
A lobster pot is a simple frame covered with a strong mesh, as you can see. There is a small hole in the shape of a funnel on one side of the pot and the bait is placed in the pot – usually a dead mackerel. The lobster first smells the mackerel, then sees it in the pot and finally does whatever it takes to get inside. Eventually he finds the funnel leading to the tasty piece of mackerel and climbs down the funnel, but once inside it’s impossible for the lobster to get through the narrow end of the funnel and out again. It is caught up in its own lust.
As I looked at these lobster pots, the Lord showed me how sin works in our lives. We are tempted by something sinful that we have or want to do. We choose to do it and look for a way to get what we want – preferably without anyone else knowing. We enter the “sin pot” through something similar to the funnel on the side of the lobster pot and enjoy the “sin” (the mackerel). But then we realize that the choice we made has trapped us in the consequences of that choice – we’re trapped in the pot! That is the essence of sin – choosing to do what we know to be wrong and finding a way to do it. No matter how much inherited sinfulness we may have, we can never blame anyone else for the sins we commit, they are always a result of the choices we make.
But how can we ever make the right decisions when we know that the enemy will constantly use the carnal nature to seduce and test us? Praise God, there is an answer! For not only have we inherited a carnal nature, but because our life comes from God Himself, we have also inherited what Ecclesiastes describes as “eternity in our hearts” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). This works in our conscience as a plumb of truth, giving us the ability to know what is right and what is wrong and to respond accordingly. We therefore instinctively have a choice – whether or not to respond to the lusts of the carnal nature or whether to view our lusts against God’s plumb. We can then decide what we will do—continue and sin anyway, or reject anything that is inconsistent with His truth.
So what can we do about it when we made the wrong choices and got it wrong? Because just like the lobster doesn’t come out of the lobster pot, we don’t come out of the “sin pot”! We are trapped by our own sins and need help. Our sin has brought us under the control of the “pot of sin” and there is no escape!
The mercy of God is centered on the cross, the place where God reached down into time and what had become the kingdom of the God of this world to save us from the consequences of both our iniquity (inherited sinfulness) and our sins to save (the wrong choices we make on purpose). Jesus paid the price for our sin and fortunately, when we come before Him with a broken heart, He lifts us out of the “pot of sin”, restores our soul and brings us back into the sea of life. But without gaining His forgiveness and mercy, we remain captive to those sins forever.
Many of the people who come to us for help at Elel Ministries, often many years ago, entered the “pot of sin” and needed to come to a place before God where they would honestly confess their sins and begin to receive forgiveness and healing that God promises in His Word (James 5:16).
I couldn’t help but compare the fate of the lobster after being caught in the pot to that of the believers who were redeemed and set free! This old chorus says it all:
“Oh, the love that designed the plan of salvation,
Oh the love that brought it to man
Oh, the mighty gulf that God spanned at Calvary!
The mercy there was great and the grace was free;
forgiveness was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found freedom,
On Calvary.”
Why would anyone ever want to reject such a love? Perhaps it is because the god of this world has blinded their eyes to the reality of what is happening to those who are trapped in prison by their inherited sinfulness and then fallen into the enemy’s “sin pot” – as a result they discover this is never the remedy for sin and the only way out. And perhaps it is because there is now so little teaching about what the Bible says about judgment and hell that so many in the church have lost the desire to evangelize. After all, why bother telling people about the Savior if we don’t understand what it means to be “lost”?
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