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Originally Posted by OneAccord
I have a saying. Goes something like this... "Just because I CAN do something, that doesn't mean I SHOULD do it." Theres things that I don't and won't do, even though I haven't seen any Scripture against the practice. As Christians, our #1 priority should be to do what we feel pleases God. And to refrain from the things that we feel might be displeasing to Him.
Example: I find no Scripture condeming the drinking of wine in moderation. But I don't drink wine because doing so may hurt my Christian witness. And, how can I drink wine and turn around and tell a recovering alcoholic that he can't? And, while drinking wine, I may do something stupid that displeases the Lord. So I don't drink wine. Which brings me to my next point.
I don't see anything as " a sin". Television is not a sin. What I watch on TV (or how I react to what I watch), could be a sin. Sin is not a noun (the name of a person place or thing). Its a verb (action word). Television is not a sin. Watching ungodly TV shows is, IMO, a sin. Wine, in and of itself, is not a sin. Drinking wine and getting drunk and doing something stupid is the sin.
Do I commit sins? I'd be a liar if I said no. But, one thing I am thankful for. I have an advocate with the Father.
Besides, who needs wine to do stupid stuff? I don't- I do stupid stuff all the time, and I'm as sober as A.A. Allen. Opps...scratch that, I'm as sober as Billy Graham
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Good post.
I look at the sin labeling issue as a bare minimum salvation. Even though people are happy to label everything short of using riding lawn mowers as a sin... they do everything that isn't a sin because everything else IS a sin.
If I lived my married life like that I'd be in pitiful shape.
If I used this reasoning toward my wife... "She won't divorce me if I do this... or She won't divorce me if I do that" then I have picked some pretty poor reasoning to build my marriage on.
And yet so many live their lives saying "God won't send me to hell for doing this... or that".
Why not build my marriage on the thought... "My wife would be so pleased if I did this... or didn't do that." or my relationship with God on thoughts like "I do this... or I refrain from that... because I feel it is pleasing to Him and is in keeping with His Word & Nature."
We were discussing a "standard" years ago and someone said "I don't think God would send me to hell for doing that". I replied. Heaven... hell... that is a fence I left a long time ago. I don't sweat what would send me to heaven or hell because when I step away from that fence I see a mansion in the distance and the King I love lives there.
He bought me entrance to this property and I'm not going to sweat the border between where he saved me from and where I can go... I'm headed in a direction that gets me closer to Him every time I find a way to do it.
If I label thousands of sins... I'll miss one.
If I pursue a deepening relationship with God where I am increasingly able to hear His voice and be led by it. He'll miss nothing.
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