Christian Beliefs About Sin In The World

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A vast majority of Christians lack understanding of how sin entered the World and how it affects the entirety of every person along with the role that God plays and His plan to extend grace to us in light of our sin, so that we may rest eternally with Him. Sin entered into the world through the disobedience of Adam in the Garden of Eden, and due to his sin, we have all inherited his sinful nature. We sin because we have a corrupted and deceitful heart. The heart is the core of our being, and due to our corrupted hearts, we have also have become wholly corrupted and have been separated from God. Praise God though that He is gracious and merciful enough to save sinners from His wrath and call people to Himself to rest eternally with Him. God …show more content…

Paul understood that our heart is wholly inclined to evil and recognized that nobody can seek after God and that nobody is righteous. Our hearts are vile and wicked, and not something that was taught, but we were born with a sinful nature, wholly inclined to the things opposite of God. Since God is holy and just, He makes a strong stance against sin. Throughout the scriptures, we see God’s hatred of sin and the separation sin creates in our hearts to 5 God (Psalm 5:4; Isaiah 59:2). When we sin, we are separating ourselves from the Lord due to the consequences of sin in our lives. Sin corrupts our entire being and blinds our eyes and hardens our hearts to the things of God. “Sin has blinded our eyes, deadened our hearts, we are in bondage to its power, and we can not be free… apart from His self-revelation in His word” (DeWitt). We exchange the truth of God for the things of this world (Romans 1:25) and fail to seek after holiness. Every action has a consequence. It can be a consequence that is good and uplifting, or it can be a consequence that is hurtful. The consequence of our sin is eternal death or also defined as eternal separation from the Lord. God will give us over to …show more content…

Adam's heart hardened in the Garden of Eden. He incurred the wrath and the curse of God and separated himself from no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me” (English Standard, Romans 7.20). When we sin even though we know it is wrong, we are not defiling God intentionally, just at that moment, we are choosing to serve that which we desire most. In an article that Dr. R.C. Sproul wrote on the late theologian, Jonathan Edwards, Dr. Sproul goes on to explain what Paul was expressing in Romans 7:15. Sproul states, “When we choose the wicked over the righteous course of action, at that moment we desire the sin more than obedience to God. That was as true for Paul as it is for us. Every time we sin we desire more to do that than we do to obey Christ. Otherwise we simply would not sin” (Sproul, “Jonathan Edwards: We Are Inclined to Sin”). Our hearts are wicked, and thus we need a savior who can change our hearts to desire God more so than our sin. Even though our sin separates us from the love of God and that when we sin