Re: irritatingly controversial
Sin is anything that goes against God. He is perfect so nothing among him can be anything but perfect. The Bible tells us what sin is and shows us that even through sin God's love came through when he sent his son to die. He died for our sins so they have already been payed for and we can be with God for eternity, but he is lord before he is savior. If you accept what he has done for you and ask him into your life he will open your eyes to how you are breaking his heart with your sins. But don't worry about that. The first step is returning his love for you, and asking for forgiveness for the life you've had without him. He will help you get sin out of your life, even if that seems unlikely or undesirable now. As for other religions; they play off of what you want. Everyone wants to hear that they are ok and they will be ok forever, but what if that's not true? No one ever said it was supposed to be easy. If a religion was easy to accomplish I wouldn't trust it. A God who created me must be more complex than ' rid yourself of everything in your life and find enlightenment'.
Christ's love,
Mystee
Originally posted by daydream_believer
okay, i know this question is irritatingly controversial, but.....what is sin? what counts as sin? what actions are bad enough to condemn us to eternal suffering? if the bible is right and the christians are right then i'm damned to hell. That's why i'm not a christian. In christian eyes, i'm sinnin g al the time, in other points of view, and other religons, i'm an okay person. But i don't believe in the christian god and i'm a lesbian so I have to go to hell. But I don't think that's fair.
Sin is anything that goes against God. He is perfect so nothing among him can be anything but perfect. The Bible tells us what sin is and shows us that even through sin God's love came through when he sent his son to die. He died for our sins so they have already been payed for and we can be with God for eternity, but he is lord before he is savior. If you accept what he has done for you and ask him into your life he will open your eyes to how you are breaking his heart with your sins. But don't worry about that. The first step is returning his love for you, and asking for forgiveness for the life you've had without him. He will help you get sin out of your life, even if that seems unlikely or undesirable now. As for other religions; they play off of what you want. Everyone wants to hear that they are ok and they will be ok forever, but what if that's not true? No one ever said it was supposed to be easy. If a religion was easy to accomplish I wouldn't trust it. A God who created me must be more complex than ' rid yourself of everything in your life and find enlightenment'.
Christ's love,
Mystee