Have you sinned less since conversion to Christianity?

[Soma-Sight]

Have you sinned less since conversion to Christianity?

 

[gingercat]

I have changed my life styles drastically according to His ways.

 

[Soma-Sight]

I have changed my life styles drastically according to His ways.

That is awesome.

I used to be bad in a lot of areas and ever since I began seeking God it just doesnt feel right to do things that are wrong according to pretty much ANY religion let alone Jesus ethics....

 

[Scott]

Soma, it seems to me that you are trying to cause problems by using the word X as opposed to Chrisitians. I usually don't have a problem with your questions (to question is to understand right?!!), but the way you go about it isn't necessarily the right way.

 

[gingercat]

I have changed my life styles drastically according to His ways.

That is awesome.

I used to be bad in a lot of areas and ever since I began seeking God it just doesnt feel right to do things that are wrong according to pretty much ANY religion let alone Jesus ethics....

I am an older person so I was a pretty decent, law abiding, average citizen.

But according to Jesus I was not nearly good enough as His disciple. His standard is way up there. :

How I had to change? I changed to be giving and giving instead of give and take. I changed to be kind to everyone around me consiously. I reduced watching secular TV programs. I hardly read secular books and magzines. I can go on and on. I feel much healthy inside now. :D

 

[mutzrein]

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

 

[moniker]

Soma, it seems to me that you are trying to cause problems by using the word X as opposed to Chrisitians. I usually don't have a problem with your questions (to question is to understand right?!!), but the way you go about it isn't necessarily the right way.

X is an English abbreviation for Christ as somehow tied in with the Grecian origins of scripture. It is considered an acceptable alternative and can somewhat denote orthodoxy due to its Grecian nature which is where Eastern Orthodoxy began.

 

[moniker]

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

Depends on your dogma. Overall it doesn't matter how often so long as you did and whether or not you repented. Venial sins cannot combine and become a mortal sin, for instance. So, basically you can ralize just how much of a jerk you've been but in the end that isn't the deciding factor and you aren't 3 tick marks from damnation because you swear like a sailor.

 

[ChristineES]

I can't really answer the poll. I became a Christian almost 25 years ago, and I don't recall what kind of sins I committed then. God doesn't remember either since I repented and was forgiven. That is what Jesus died for. :-D

 

[mutzrein]

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

Depends on your dogma. Overall it doesn't matter how often so long as you did and whether or not you repented. Venial sins cannot combine and become a mortal sin, for instance. So, basically you can ralize just how much of a jerk you've been but in the end that isn't the deciding factor and you aren't 3 tick marks from damnation because you swear like a sailor.

Sorry moniker - I have no idea what you are saying. Can you explain a bit pse.

 

[Sothenes]

I refuse to take any poll that doesn't use the proper name.

 

[thessalonian]

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

So when John says "any man who says he is without sin is a liar" this doesn't apply to you? You don't sin? Your sin doesn't matter? Christ's grace does not have the power to actually help you overcome sin? When Paul says

Heb 12
[4] In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
[5] And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? -- "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor lose courage when you are punished by him.
[6] For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives."

So you don't resist sin? You don't feel like God chastises you when you sin? That would be very sad. It would mean God does not love you.

 

[moniker]

I refuse to take any poll that doesn't use the proper name.

X is an English abbreviation for Christ as somehow tied in with the Grecian origins of scripture. It is considered an acceptable alternative and can somewhat denote orthodoxy due to its Grecian nature which is where Eastern Orthodoxy began.

Are you saying that the Labarum is an unacceptable symbol to you?

 

[moniker]

Sorry moniker - I have no idea what you are saying. Can you explain a bit pse.

Well, as I said it depends on your dogma. Catholic doctrine has essentially 2 types of sin. Venial and mortal sin. You must repent of a mortal sin or else you shall be doomed to hell, meanwhile venial sins simply send you to purgatory until cleansed enough to join heaven. Mortal sin is the equivalent to pre-meditated crimes. You knew what you were doing, that it was bad, and you did it anyway. Venial ones don't meet up with that criteria. No matter how many venial sins you commit the worst you can do is wind up in purgatory which leads to heaven meanwhile 1 unrepented mortal sin is damnation. The line between the two is not very clear though as a mortal sin must be over a 'grave matter' so...yeah it's open to interpretation a bit.

 

[Soma-Sight]

Soma, it seems to me that you are trying to cause problems by using the word X as opposed to Chrisitians. I usually don't have a problem with your questions (to question is to understand right?!!), but the way you go about it isn't necessarily the right way

I did it because I was lazy and X was easiest..... :

No offense, I changed it to the long form version.

I refuse to take any poll that doesn't use the proper name.

Well........

I changed it now. No offense.

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

You should vote "Other".

 

[mutzrein]

Since when was sin measureable? When I was born in the flesh, I was born in sin. When I was born again, my sin was removed as far as the east is from the west.

So when John says "any man who says he is without sin is a liar" this doesn't apply to you? You don't sin? Your sin doesn't matter? Christ's grace does not have the power to actually help you overcome sin? When Paul says

Heb 12
[4] In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
[5] And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? -- "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor lose courage when you are punished by him.
[6] For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives."

So you don't resist sin? You don't feel like God chastises you when you sin? That would be very sad. It would mean God does not love you.

Of course God chastises His children. But as his child I have passed from death to life. From sin to sanctification. It doesn't mean that the spirit does not war against the flesh.
I am no different to any other person. I am born of the flesh. But since I am born of the Spirit I am no longer subject the the law of sin and death. This is why Christ died.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

And if God remembers my sin no more, I would say it has been removed an infinite distance - as far as the east is from the west.

 

[thessalonian]

How is it that God has forgotten your sin yet chastises you for it? :-? So I say to my kid, don't worry about the window you broke, it's forgotten and then give him a spanken for it? It is this idea that protestants have and it sounds like you do that future sins are fogiven. I agree that all past sin is forgiven.

I agree that as long as you remain in his grace you are not subject to death of the soul and will live eternally with him.