What is sin? Ask the question, ‘What is sin?’. People are sure to come out with diverse answers and at best they will only give you examples of sin rather than defining the term ‘sin’. As saved ones, we admit that we were sinners, we claim that we have received forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus Christ and we wish to live a life that is sin free. However, unless we understand what the Bible means by the term sin, we may not able to achieve much in our Christian walk. Richard Trench’s Synonyms of New Testament Names presents us eight different terms to describe sin 1. The missing of a mark or aim - falling short. 2. The passing over or transgression of a line. 3. Disobedience to a voice. 4. Failing when one should have stood upright. 5. Ignorance of what one should have known. 6. The diminishing of that which should have been rendered in full. 7. Non-observance of law. 8. Discord in the harmonies of God’s universe. These eight terms are all drawn from the standards that God himself ordained and placed in the New Testament. When we sin by missing the mark, it is God’s mark that we miss. When we transgress or pass over a line, it is the line that God has drawn. It is His voice that is disobeyed, His standard we let down when we fail to stand upright, His precepts of which we are ignorant, His ordained requirements that we diminish, His law that we fail to observe, and His universe that we treat discordantly. Any thoughtful consideration of these eight terms will make it plain that at minimum, the great evil of all sin consists not in harming other people, but in the fact that is against God!. “Against Thee, thee only I have sinned, and done what is evil in Thy sight” (Psalms 51:4)
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:38:44 +0000
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