Is thinking a sin?

Answer 1

Of course not.

Answer 2

that would depend on what you are thinking?
what the heart is full of the mouth will speak

there is no avoiding sin, everybody sins.

consider this though

God can not love you any more if you do less sin,
nor can he love you any less if you sin more.

people who understand what Jesus did for us all try to live a cleaner life to be closer to him, but we are not saved by our actions. we are saved by the grace of God

God is our strength and is therefore found in our weaknesses

I have a saying, "Everyone believes in God, it just depends on how much trouble you are in"

Answer 3

To a large number of Christians it is, hence they feel threatened that they are losing power over you. Thinking means that you aren't willing to be spoonfed ideas via blind faith.

Oddly enough, other religions don't believe in sin and they expect you to think on your own without holding an invisible being responsible for your own actions.

Answer 4

According to some religions seemingly yes. Roman Catholicism would spring to mind. For centuries they practiced the burning at the stake for this particular sin.

Answer 5

Wow good question. I'm sure thinking about certain things, like say planning to hurt someone would be a sin. Where is the line? I don't know. I guess that is between you and the Almighty.

respectfully,

Answer 6

I would have to say negative thinking is. If you want to get rid of negative thinking, just don't even finish the negative thought. Breath in and out a few times and forget it.
Works for me.

Answer 7

That all depends on the quality of the thoughts. That is the only measure.
And who really has the capability of judging which thoughts are right and which thoughts are wrong? You can make a work of art or peel potatoes with a knife. Or you can kill some-one with it. It's all up to the owner!

Answer 8

the churches might say it is a sin because if you did think you will find thay you have been conned by a 2000yrs old fairy tale

Answer 9

EDUCATION (On Inability of Modern Education to Produce a Mature Mind)

“People today indeed do tend to be very superficial in their thinking, and it would seem as if the educational systems in use are sorely lacking in ability to produce a mature mind in a person who has reached supposedly adult life! All the outside influences that surround the individual seem to have an intensely distracting effect, and it is a hard job to get the average person to do any deep thinking or even a little meditation on the problems facing him and the world at large.
“Over and over again Bahá’u’lláh cried out against the heedlessness of humanity, and warns of the fate such an attitude must lead to. Did we not know what God plans to, and will do, with the world in the future, we should certainly be as hopeless as many of the best thinkers of our generation have become.”

Search After Truth

Bahá’u’lláh enjoins justice on all His followers and defines it as:—“The freedom of man from superstition and imitation, so that he may discern the Manifestations of God with the eyes of Oneness, and consider all affairs with keen sight.”—Words of Wisdom.
It is necessary that each individual should see and realize for himself the Glory of God manifest in the human temple of Bahá’u’lláh, otherwise the Bahá’í faith would be for him but a name without meaning. The call of the Prophets to mankind has always been that men should open their eyes, not shut them, use their reason, not suppress it. It is clear seeing and free thinking, not servile credulity, that will enable them to penetrate the clouds of prejudice, to shake off the fetters of blind imitation, and attain to the realization of the truth of a new Revelation.
He who would be a Bahá’í needs to be a fearless seeker after truth, but he should not confine his search to the material 74 plane. His spiritual perceptive powers should be awake as well as his physical. He should use all the faculties God has given him for the acquisition of truth, believing nothing without valid and sufficient reason. If his heart is pure, and his mind free from prejudice, the earnest seeker will not fail to recognize the Divine Glory in whatsoever temple it may become manifest. Bahá’u’lláh further declares:—
Man should know his own self, and know those things that lead to loftiness or to baseness, to shame or to honor, to wealth or to poverty.—Tablet of Tarazát.
The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted be His Glory! and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of His divine Manifestation.—Words of Wisdom.
The Manifestation is the Perfect Man, the great Exemplar for Mankind, the First Fruit of the tree of humanity. Until we know Him we do not know the latent possibilities within ourselves. Christ tells us to consider the lilies how they grow, and declares that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. The lily grows from a very unattractive-looking bulb. If we had never seen a lily in bloom, never gazed on its matchless grace of foliage and flower, how could we know the reality contained in that bulb? We might dissect it most carefully and examine it most minutely, but we should never discover the dormant beauty which the gardener knows how to awaken. So until we have seen the Glory of God revealed in the Manifestation, we can have no idea of the spiritual beauty latent in our own nature and in that of our fellows. By knowing and loving the Manifestation of God and following His teachings we are enabled, little by little, to realize the potential perfections within ourselves; then, and not till then, does the meaning and purpose of life and of the universe become apparent to us.

Answer 10

Thinking is a responsibility that you must exercise that makes you responsible off your actions. Your mind is a gift by God for you to use. Don't follow anyone unless you THINK he makes sense. Read a lot and always question what you read because if the moment comes you shall stand in front of God and answer Him alone. What are you going to do? Act like a kid and tell him he told me this, she told me that???!!!! THINK....THINK.........THINK

Answer 11

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