Why do people, commit sins.? They know its not right.?

Question

So why do they do it?

Answer 1

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 2

Well, first of all there is no such thing as a sin. This is an element of superstition and needs to be brought up to date with what we know now instead of the silly ideas people had 2,000 years ago.

When people do things that are not in their interest or in the interest of society they are making errors of one type or another. Sometimes they do that because of their self interest, sometimes because of ignorance, and sometimes because they have priorities that direct them to do them.

For example, it is an error to try to spread the idea of creationism or "intelligent design", but ignorant people do it because they think it is correct or because their church leaders insist on keeping them under control with lies. The church leaders do it because of their self interest to keep them ignorant. They make money that way. They are selfish.

But no sin is committed. It is just all ignorance or self interest.

You can also have situations where no matter what a person does it will be wrong for someone or society. This is the way the world is.

Answer 3

Because we are not perfect. God gave us free will, and we are just people and people make mistakes. You can commit sins without really meaning to. Like telling a lie so someone else would not get hurt by the truth. Although you may be saving someone else from being hurt you are still comminting a sin.

Answer 4

Why do you?

I pray that you are not as selfrighteous as to claim that you live a sinless life.

If you can not look at yourself and see you sin and why you did/do it, do not ask others to explain themselves. Especially, with a judgemental tone of "You know it is not right, so why do you do it."

If you still need help in finding your own sin try these on I am sure that if you are honest you will find a few that fit like a "T": self-righteous, prideful, stuborn, judgemental, rude, critical, unaccepting, unwelcoming and hipocritical.

I forgive you and pray that we can work together to spread the Good News of God's grace, mercy, forgivness and love through the life, death and resurection of God's Son, Jesus instead of trying to tear down people through shaming them, making them feel guilty or unworthy or by condemning them because they are different or make mistakes.

Answer 5

Romans 5:12: Just as through one man, sin entered into the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.

It is genetic. We inherited it from our forefather Adam. Even when we wish to do what is good, what is bad is present with us as the apostle Paul says at Romans 7:21-24.

So we are inherently sinful - it is our inclination.

Hannah

Answer 6

It's not the so called sin part that bothers me it's the crimes that are committed that often accompany the sin.

Answer 7

It depends on what sin? Most of the times, its lying, intended for a good thing to save something but often abused just to have fun out of it.

Answer 8

They only think about the benefits or pleasure of that sin and they are weak minded letting their sinful nature control them

Answer 9

Did you ever wonder why a squirrel hoards nuts? How does he know to do that? Do the other squirrels get outraged when one squirrel has all the nuts and there are starving squirrels all over the forest? Everything considered "evil" (it seems) is acceptable in the survival of an animal - theft, hoarding, killing, even eating their own young. However, when we humans engage in this behavior there is a reactionary judgment and this reactionary judgment is caused by our morality - there is something that separates us from animals - religious people call it a spirit, atheists call it morality, spiritual people call it our soul - no matter what we call it (even god) it causes us to judge what is considered an otherwise natural reaction in our survival programming to be (now) bad. If we are the evolutionary products of some creator, and we required this animal programming to get to this stage (i.e in our survival from animals to an intelligent being), and we are then given conscious understanding of our actions (at some later level of intelligence), than the evil (our natural animal tendencies) served a purpose in getting us here. Killing, hoarding, stealing and the like all work perfectly well toward survival. And it would be perfectly understandable for this or that creator to have created both evil (natural instincts in survival) and good (a later ability to understand that these actions are now bad). The problem is not understanding all this but actually having some motivation to develop your morality in lieu of your animal. And most of us do not have the ability to recognize when we are stickily following our innate programs at the expense of the development of our morality. This is essentially what habits are - looping our programming. Serial Killers are really just running programs which are innate in our genetic code. Killing is perfectly acceptable to animals. Serial Killers have suppressed their concepts of right and wrong to satisfy a program. The way in which this program comes to fruition is through it’s use. Once a serial killer kills the program recognizes itself. Killing then becomes progressive as the serial killer’s mind is indicating that this program needs to run again (that is why it’s there). All programs we have seem to me to be progressive - that is the more we use them the more we need to use them. For example, people who engage in deviant sexual behavior like sado masochism are running programs concerning our innate genetic programs of dominance and submission as well as violence. The more they engage in this behavior the more they want to engage in this behavior often leading to behaviors which transcend fantasy (i.e. actual rape and killing). People who have a sense of moral outrage at specific immoral acts do so as they have developed their morality to a level which no longer permits one or more particular programs to take hold. Original sin is simply our genetic instinctual programs which without morality (often called god, spirit, soul, consciousness, etc.) would result us in simply being animals . Genetic code predisposes some individuals to have variations of the functionality of these programs. That is to say our genetic code predisposes us to use this program or that program more prevalently than it may be used by someone else. In short, we humans aren’t all that hard to figure out. It’s dealing with our inherent duality which is the tough part. The key I believe it to avoid behaviors which mimic our programming. Because engaging in these behaviors is, as I noted, progressive.

Answer 10

G-d created us with free will. He doesn't want robots who had no choice but to love Him; He wants voluntary lovers. So He honors us with the ability to make our own choices.

The thing is, usually we choose not to do the right thing. It goes back to the Garden of Eden when G-d created the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He basically told Adam and Eve, "I've created this tree to give you a choice. You can choose your own desires or you can choose to love Me. I don't want you to eat from this tree because it can never give you what I have prepared to give you. I want to bless you in so many ways. I created you to relate to Me and be friends with Me. But it's your choice." Both of them chose to eat the fruit from the tree. By their actions, they said to G-d, "No. We reject Your plan. We reject the reason You have created us. We reject Your wisdom and desire to bless us. We want to be our own gods and go our own way. We think that by eating from this tree we can make ourselves equal to You."

Their actions had consequences for the entire human race. Adam and Eve had been created perfect, yet with a free will. They still had free will after the fall, but now they were sinners who could not approach G-d by any of their own merit. They, their children, and the entire human race, when left to our own devices, often do wrong things because that is our nature.

Some people feel their conscience stirring when they do wrong things. But if they don't listen, if they choose to commit sins, they gradually become hardened to the call to repentance.

What about people who have accepted what the Son of G-d did for us? By the shedding of innocent blood, believers are able to approach G-d in the way that Adam and Eve could before they sinned. But Christians still sin, even though they know it's not right. Paul the apostle talked about this in Romans 7:13-25. He said that we have two forces warring inside of us: the law of sin and the law of G-d (the law of grace). Just because we are covered by Yeshua's blood doesn't mean that we automatically become perfect. We still do the things that we don't want to do.

We have to accept the law of grace. G-d has an infinite capacity to forgive those who are genuinely sorry for their sins. He knows that many of us have ongoing battles with areas of sin in our lives; He doesn't condemn us because of our immaturity. If we genuinely want to stop sinning in an area, He will help us. And just being tempted by something isn't a sin; sin is giving in to the temptation.

The life of a believer is a journey into understanding and accepting the law of grace, and of actively fighting against sins that trip us up. I highly recommend reading the book of Romans; Paul has a lot of good stuff to say on the subject. And the book of Hebrews talks about how Yeshua prays on our behalf. Hebrews 4:15-16 says that He was tempted by every single temptation we feel. For that reason, we can flat-out tell Him, "I can't do this. I want to keep sinning. I need Your help." The amazing thing is that it's supposed to be a process--and He is more committed to strengthening us against sin than we can even imagine.