Christians do you think that most of our attitudes toward sin is more self-centered then God-centered?

Question

Do you relize that all sin is against God? Sin is breaking God's law not ours. Without the law we do not know what sin is.

Answer 1

Yes, it's just that we don't realize it sometimes...

But God has given our world leaders or the government the authority to rule and to give out laws, so as long as the law is not against God, God calls us to obey and respect the law.

More importantly, we must always remember that we try our best not to sin, simply because we want to glorify God!

Answer 2

Well, yes but sin is both god's law and our own thoughts as to God's law. Sin is both self-centered and God's law.

We know right from wrong, "self-centered."

We know what God's expects of us and what are "known" sins.

Most people do not apply God's law to all of their life. They have separate "codes" as to their "work" life and their personal life. Businesses promote lying, cheating, and stealing, JUST A FACT. So those things are justified at work.
Example, not telling the whole truth is the same as lying. This is done all the time in the business world. This is because of a "bastardization" of the Bible teaching which says, "the Lord helps those that help their selves." A simple fact.

Half the young people that go to college today, are learning how to steal and cheat the other half. Businesses always make excuses as to why things are the way they are at that business, not based on much fact, but based on the amount the employer wants to make for himself or herself.

Bill Gates is a perfect example of this. After over-pricing his products for over twenty years, and ripping off the public, he now wants to "buy" goodness. And that which he is giving away does not effect one bit his lifestyle and it never will. Many people believe that they can be one thing, and on the other hand be something else. Oprah is another good example of that too.

Answer 3

As a very long time Christian, I have learned that most of the attitudes towards sin is based much more on "church dogma" than on the actual truths of the Bible.

Much of the problems come from misinterpretation of scriptures by preachers and lay people whom do not read or speak Hebrew or Greek. These same and even more ministers only preach from what they were taught and not from research on their own. If you would like to know more of the truths of the Bible check into the Liberated Christian movement. Many churches are against the Liberated Christians because it goes against most of their long held injustices.

Remember too, if you are a Christian you are no longer under the "law" but under "grace". You have two requirements as a Christian, 1.) to love the Lord God with all your heart and soul, and 2,) to love your neighbour as yourself.

If you believe you are still under the "law" as a Christian, when was the last time you ate shrimp or lobster or catfish, all clearly violations of the "law" or have worn clothing made of two different fibers again in violation of the law. Jesus fulfilled the law, but He did not change it.

Answer 4

By nature our attitudes towards sin are self-centered. Something is then sinful, if it causes us harms. We don't think about the harm we cause to others. This is a relative definition of sin.

We also are self-centered in comparing someone else's sins to our sins. It makes us feel good, even superior to say that we are not as bad as someone else, or "those people."

However when we consider God, then sin is not relatively defined for each individual, it is absolutely defined by God. Then we no longer compare sins looking at the other person, we examine sin based on the standards that God has set.

If we do not want to adhere to those standards then in comes pride and rebellion. We become at war with those standards and with those who attempt to uphold them.

A funny thing is that God has given all men a conscience, which knows when we are doing good and evil. A conscience is sort of an elementary measuring device that can be strenghtened with righteousness, or it can be destroyed or seared with rebellion and ignorance.

Answer 5

It's self-centered when we expect people to follow the law when we can't follow it ourselves, because the reason the law was given was to convince us that we are sinners, not to show us how to be good people, but we are told what to do so that when we don't do what we're supposed to do or we do what we're not supposed to do, then we realize our need for forgiveness and turn back to God, repent, in other words.

It's self-centered when we don't hold it in the regard with which it was given, but use it to try to show people how to be good, how they can keep from offending us with their actions and words etc., rather than show them how to be right with God, by repenting and laying their lives at his feet.

edit:

The Law is also a restrainer. I didn't mean to imply that it isn't.

Answer 6

That's true without the law we would not know what sin is. But thank God when we do sin we are forgiven through Jesus.

Answer 7

True... sort of... remember God gave 10 Commands... Man expanded that into thousands, with exceptions and nuances. Just look at some of the laws governments have made... Have you ever ask your self "they needed to make a law to cover that?" So the conclusion could that mankind is either incredibly stupid (DarwinAwards.com) or incredibly evil (terrorist) or both.

Answer 8

When God helps us to recognize sin in others His intention is for us to pray for them but so many times we judge them instead. When it becomes self-centered is when we are making excuses for why it is okay for us to do something that clearly goes against the Bible's teaching.

Answer 9

It is more self-centered when we justify our sins. We are not treating sin as breaking God's law and incurring consequences when we call them "mistakes" or say that we could not help it.

We are more God-centered when we confess sin as such and take steps to repent.

Answer 10

For believers, it is God-centered.

Unless youre a part of the world, your objection to sin has nothing to do with self and everything to do with God.