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06-14-2008, 11:19 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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06-14-2008, 11:30 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Oh yeahhhhhh!  I am much too occupied reading my NIV!
Prax... U would love it! You must get one! 
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06-14-2008, 11:42 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
Why worry when you can pray
Trust Jesus he'll be your stay
Don't be a doubting Thomas
Rest fully on His promise ( my sister says While standing on his promise)
Why worry worry worry worry
When you can pray
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(Common sense is not so common.)
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Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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06-15-2008, 11:17 AM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
I heard a bible teacher on the radio yesterday make a fairly convincing argument that anxiety can be a sin.
One of the reasons he gave was that it's rooted in unbelief ...
Not sure I entirely agree with his premise ... but thought I'd bring it up for discussion
What do you think? Is it? Can it ever be a sin?
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Sure it's a sin because unbelief is sin. And in some cases a spirit at work.
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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06-15-2008, 11:19 AM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Paul clearly details sins and the works of the flesh. Does he mention anxiety?
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Does he mention cigarettes?
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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06-15-2008, 12:04 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
If fear and anxiety are one and the same:
8: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Rev. 21:8
One must overcome it if they wish to be saved.
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06-15-2008, 01:21 PM
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Tired of it.
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Sure it's a sin because unbelief is sin. And in some cases a spirit at work.
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I think it can be, but this is a broad generalization. Anxiety is not always the same as unbelief.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds... - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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06-15-2008, 01:52 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Originally Posted by whollyHis
It doesn't say the bolded part above. Read it again.
"Perfect love casts out FEAR"...THAT is what it says. It never states that ALL fear will be cast out...
Just FYI.
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1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
1Jn 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
1Jn 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
I believe the "all" is implied.
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06-15-2008, 05:08 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
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Originally Posted by DerrickS
I think it can be, but this is a broad generalization. Anxiety is not always the same as unbelief.
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OK define anxiety?
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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06-15-2008, 05:32 PM
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Re: Is THIS a Sin?? ... Can it Ever Be?
I have a hard time believing that any involuntary feeling or emotion could be called "sin."
I think the Bible encourages us to trust in God, but I don't believe worry is a sin. It could be a symptom of not relying on God enough, and points to a hole in the Relationship that needs to be worked on.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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