FAITH AND SIN

      Whatsoever is not of faith is sin........quote from the New
Testament......
      Any  conscious thought acknowledging something as truth
and committing to it would be called "exercising faith" To
put in into verb form,  faithing.       
     All faithing has an action of some kind that follows ,an act
of faith, a behavior based on the faithing.   
     Therefore any action that is not based on faith in what
God has said is sin....Hamartia in the Greek,   "to miss the
mark"    The mark being that we are created in His image ,
therefore anything less than His perfection is sin...( That's
why grace and the cross etc.  another subject)             
     To pursue this then,  ( I'm pursuing sin),  sin is to doubt
Gods word, to doubt what he said or is saying.  

     Here is where Paul’s advice to Timothy comes to play, "study to
show thyself approved, a workman  RIGHTLY dividing the
Word"
     When I say  "God's Word"  I'm saying   "what God said
and is saying"   Interpretations must not be about "my feeling
about this is,   or   I think that..."  
     To honestly search and research for the truth no matter
where it takes one and to be willing to throw off pre-
conceivement and let the truth reset ourselves, is the search
for truth.
     Therefore,   doubting  what God has said, not trusting
what God has said, wondering if we can  "skate "  a little
while before we trust,   etc......... is sin.   It is a mental attitude
and we cry with the  sinner in the New Testament, "Lord,
help thou my unbelief!"  
     The sum total of sin is "not faithing".   
     However all faithlessness has it actions that follow also
and they are the outward evidence of unbelief.   
     Some sin stays inside and no one knows but me and God,
but Gods laws bring the penalties.   
     Some sin comes out, stealing etc. and society brings the
penalty but the sin is unbelief, not the stealing.  
     Anything that comes from anywhere other than faithing ,
trusting God is missing the mark, hamartia, sin.  "
     Whatsoever is not of faith is sin"   
     Behavior coming from faithing Gods  promises is a
"sweet smelling" savor to God.   No matter how stumbling
and poorly carried out, the acknowledgment is there, and the
weakest effort is in the right direction.

 
      Faith always brings some kind of action, either mental or physical or both,  
      Lack of it always does too.    THANK GOD FOR GRACE WHILE I
AM STUPIDLY STUMBLING AROUND!.................

                                                                                  David