So far, in your life, which has hurt you more? The devil, sinful people, or sin of your own?

Question

Pinkstea: Yea, I am a Chinese Christian in China (3C)

Don: Imagine a basket ball game. When do you feel excited as a player, or even as an audience? When you receive the medal, or during the game?
If we were perfect, life wouldn't be so challenging anymore. God wants us to suffer from our sins, so after we defeat our own sins and Satan, we will receive the medal in a meaningful way.

Answer 1

Sin of my own. Sin hurts you in ways you may not know for years.

Answer 2

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 100 percent of the time?

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.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 3

Well, considering that any hurt that can be done to someone was inspired by the devil, then I would have to say the devil. My next choice would be sinful people. I say that because I have never been hurt more by the sinful actions of my ex-husband than anyone else in this world, including myself. Calling himself a Christian, he did extremely cruel acts against me and our children, and he justified them in the name of Christ. I've spent thousands of dollars on a lengthy divorce and continue to pay legal fees because he continues to cause problems and I have to keep going back to court. As an example, this guy kidnapped our daughter shortly after she had kidney surgery and told her that her mother, whom she is very close to (me), was evil and dangerous. He did this the day before my father died, which happened to be on my birthday. He told my child that my father died on my birthday because that was God's punishment to me for trying to take her out of state to see my Dad before he died. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

My final choice would be that I have sinned and have been hurt also by this sin because I have not been able to forgive my ex-husband yet for the hurt he has caused me. While I am letting go of the anger, I haven't come to the point of forgiveness yet. I know that as a Christian, I am sinning by not forgiving him, but I find it difficult to do this yet, especially because there were many, many more things he did to hurt me besides taking our daughter (who is with me now, by the way). When we don't forgive, we are sinning, and this only hurts ourselves - not the person we can't forgive.

So, in the following order of who has hurt me more, it would be: the devil, sinful people and my own sin.

Answer 4

I think it would have to be sin of my own because I allow the devil to use me in some cases and I deal with sinful people so I am just as wrong as they are. I hurt myself by allowing myself to indulge in things that are wrong and when I know they are wrong but don't back away from them I pay the consequences of all the things. So I believe that I hurt myself more because I know the possibility of damage and consequences for my own ignorance but when I allow it to happen, I commit the sin each time.

Answer 5

None. I have a very positive outlook in life, therefore if I f*ck up I just let it be and I keep ging ahead. I think what has hurt me most is me being too trusting of people.(i don't think that's a sin or the work of the devil)

Answer 6

The devil(Satan) is always the biggest hurt weather he works in my mind, in others, or in the world. You will find that even a doubt placed in the mind can cause sin.
"your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour."

Answer 7

there is no devil I hardly ever have an occasion for sin on my own part so I'd have to say from looking at some of my life the sin of others has actually hurt me.

Answer 8

Sinful people and sin of our own are created by the devil in the first place....so I'd have to say the devil.

Answer 9

My own sins have hurt me the most .It has also hurt the people around me that I have loved. I cannot even blame the devil as it was I that made the choices I have made not him.

Answer 10

I would have to say my Father's sin made an emotional wreck of me. Later, I worsened the process with sins of my own. Pretty much a toss up.