To use a very biblical word, sinners are slaves. Second Peter 2:19b explains it this way: “For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.” Like a prisoner locked in a cell who cannot escape, so sinners too are locked in a prison of sin and cannot get free. This includes self-selected slavery, such … Read more
…walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16 The flesh is our internal enemy and a seed of corruption that lingers in us until our glorification following death. In brief, the flesh is our fallen internal resistance to obey God and put self-interests above God’s interests.1 Flesh sometimes … Read more
I [Jesus] came not to call the righteous, but sinners. Mark 2:17 Because sin is a humanity-wide problem, answers for the definition, source, and cause of sin are postulated from seemingly every conceivable ideology. By examining some sinful views of sin, we are able to better understand erroneous views and help explain biblical truth to those … Read more
…for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. – Romans 2:8 The Bible is filled with examples of God getting angry at sinners and of his anger as hostile, burning, and furious.2 Because God is holy, good, and just, he not only feels angry about … Read more
…without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.– Hebrews 9:22 One scholar says that blood is mentioned some 362 times in the Old Testament and some ninety-two times in the New Testament and even more often than the cross or death of Jesus; thus, it is the most common means by which … Read more
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:22 Mere behavioral change is not sufficient to remedy the human condition. Instead, we need a new heart and nature, what the Bible calls regeneration or new birth, followed by ongoing sanctification into Christlikeness if there is to be any … Read more
…sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…Romans 5:12 According to Romans 5:12–21, Adam’s sin affects us all in three ways. (1) There is inherited sin from the original sin of Adam that causes the rest of humanity to be born into a sinful state … Read more
ADAM AND EVE: What is the fall? So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who … Read more