Is It Okay If I Don't Define It As Sin?

[Digging4Truth]

Many of the discussions that I involve myself in are over issues that I do practice myself and hold to them with much affection. But the issue, to me, is whether something is labeled a sin.

Something doesn't have to be labeled a sin, in my mind, for me to refrain from it. I will do one thing or refrain from doing another simply because I feel it would be a way of living that would be pleasing to my God or would help me reflect Him more in the way I live my life.

Must I call it a sin? Is a thing a sin? Or does that true definition not come from the condition of the heart?

Can I not be saved by Grace and faith and let all other things fall into the category of a lifelong search for His perfect and majestic will?

That is, often, my issue. We want to label actions as sin and people as sinners even though they are walking in all they know as I am walking in all I know. I do things... or don't do things now that I once didn't yet understand. But I wasn't lost. I have just learned more and now I walk in it. I will learn more about Him and His nature and I will fulfill those things as I learn them. But I'm not a sinner now because I don't yet walk in what I have not yet understood.

I just fall short in my understanding of why we must label everyone and everything per how they stand against our own current understanding when all of those saved by His Grace are in a constant state of discovery concerning his endless wisdom.

What ludicrous things have been labeled sin? Bubble Gum, Coffee, Beards (Which your Christ wore). It amazes me sometimes but as I type I can hear the labeling machines clicking away.