Importance Of Anomia In The New Testament

Anomia is carried over and is used in the New Testament as well. In the New Testament, anomia gained a further shade of meaning as lawless. However, the meaning of anomia as lawless does not mean simply without the law, but contrary to law. The meaning of anomia also has reference to the personal experience of the righteous who come into contact with it. In the New Testament anomia describes the torment of righteous Lot who lived amongst the lawless deeds of Sodom and Gomorrah (2 Peter 2:8). Anomia, lawlessness is further described as a secret power of evil in the world (2 Thessalonians 2:7, 8). And 1 John 3:4 states that lawlessness is sin. In summary, then, in the New Testament, anomia means that which is contrary to law. It is further

It was the Spirit who directed Ezekiel’s attention to the detestable practices that were taking place. The Spirit showed Ezekiel what was occurring. God knows what is occurring. God not only knows but what is occurring is affecting God. The Spirit did not only show Ezekiel, but also expressed the pain of God’s heart. The pain of God’s heart is found in the fact of the sadness that God felt. God felt such emotion that He became angry at what was taking place (Ezekiel 8:17). God is not a spiritual Mount Rushmore. He is not made of stone that cannot be touched by us and by what we experience. One of our great comforts is that Jesus Christ became just like us, without sin, for the purpose that he could know experientially what we go through and so that he could feel what we feel and in this way be able to help us (Hebrews 2:17, 18). Do we ever ask ourselves how God is affected by what we do? Or do we live our Christian lives with no thought of the effect on God of our thoughts, words, actions, and behavior? Do we not know that our insisting on our own way at Church meetings over the style of music, the color of the carpet, what instruments are played in the service is not known by God? Does it escape our knowledge that our unforgiving others, our judgmental and self-righteous spirit is somehow missed by God? The essence, width and depth of Christianity is love toward God and

There near the altar, at the entrance to the inner court, stood the Idol of Jealousy (Ezekiel 8:5). The Idol of Jealousy was a statue of a figure. The fact that an idol stood in the city, let alone at the entrance to the inner court of the temple is our first indication that something is not right. God had said to Israel, that the making of a statute or an idol was prohibited and was thus a violation of the covenant with God (Exodus 20:4-6). Ezekiel did not have to go very far into the temple to begin to realize that something was amiss. There were indications that sin was in the temple at the very entrance to the temple. So, it is with the Church today. One does not have to enter very far to begin to know that something is not right. This study will share some of that which is amiss in the Church