Sinning religion ?

Question

Romans 6:15 says "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." How is this verse compatible with a sinning religion?

"Once saved, always saved"

Answer 1

I do not understand your question. State it more clearly so that I may edit my answer.

Answer 2

I am assuming that faulty grammar is the reason you appear to have asked a question with no actual direction, and I'll try to answer what I think you meant to ask. Do you mean, "Since all people sin, but we're supposed to avoid sin, how does this make sense?" If so, I think I can answer that.

Well, we have unconscious or 'oops!' sin. This is when you get angry enough to hit someone, or when you drop a brick on your toe and yell out a bad word. That sin is going to happen all the time. Even when we stop using bad words or hitting people, others 'oops!' sins will appear to take their place. Life seems to provide ample opportunity to sin.

But then there's the person who says, "I have a problem with using profanity and it's one of those things that I can't overcome. So well, God knows my heart and will forgive me." This is the kind of sin they tell you to avoid in that Bible verse.

I overeat. I do it constantly. I still haven't overcome it. But I can't tell myself that since I haven't ever had it under control, I will never try to control myself again. No. Instead, I have to say, "I am going to try again right now." And when I mess up, I repent and try again starting now.

"Monday dieting" is not what I am supposed to do. I won't start my diet Monday. I'll repent and try to eat less right now, at my next temptation to overeat. And since I'm always trying to get it better, I am not in habitual sin, even though it looks that way.

So you see? If you sin all the time but you always try to stop, you're not the habitual sinner from that verse. You are someone who is constantly repenting, and even though it doesn't seem like it, you're constantly improving, too. Eventually, you may get it right, and won't that be cool? (If you don't try, you can't ever get success, right?)

I wanted to make it clear to you that while humans sin, we can also repent and ask God for help to change. I hope I did that. Please feel free to let me know if I didn't answer your question correctly. I'd love to try again. Thanks.

Answer 3

The Apostle Paul who wrote this letter to the Romans was talking to the Christians. A true Christian is saved by Grace and not by the Law. The Law means you have to work hard and follow rules. Grace means Christ Jesus has kept the Law totally and if we come to Him and ask for forgiveness he will forgive us. G=God' R=Riches A=At C=Christ's E=Expense.

Answer 4

considering that Adam and Eve have been the 1st (and easily) human beings, their infants could have not have been given the different decision than to intermarry. God did no longer forbid inter-relatives marriage until eventually plenty later whilst there have been adequate human beings to make intermarriage pointless (Leviticus 18:6-18). the reason that incest on the instant in lots of situations leads to genetic abnormalities is that once 2 human beings of comparable genetics (i.e., a brother and sister) have infants collectively, there's a extreme hazard of their recessive features becoming to be dominant. whilst human beings from distinctive families have infants, it is distinctly unlikely that the two dad and mom will carry an analogous recessive features. The human genetic code has exchange into increasingly extra “polluted” over the centuries as genetic defects are expanded, amplified, and handed down from era to era. Adam and Eve did no longer have any genetic defects, and that enabled them and the 1st few generations of their descendants to have a a methods extra advantageous high quality of well being than we do now. Adam and Eve’s infants had few, if any, genetic defects. consequently, it became risk-free for them to intermarry.

Answer 5

I think what you are trying to say is that in some religions it seems they teach that it is OK to sin... That God understands... and you are questioning this kind of logic based on this verse...Is this correct?

What this verse is talking about is man's deliberately choosing to sin... and expecting God, by His grace, to overlook our deliberate choice to sin. There is no way this is going to happen... If we truly love God, and accept Him as our Lord and Master, then we choose to subject ourselves to His will, not our own, and in doing so, we do everything to please Him rather than ourselves. This means we do not choose to sin.... we may do so accidently...but the moment we recognize it as sin, must repent. God is a holy God and He never just overlooks sin.... He judges it!

I don't really like the term 'religion' much as it seems to much bound to tradition and man's ways of doing things. If in my religious traditions it find myself sinning... and I have no real relationship with God.... well then, there is a tendency to tell onesself that 'everyone is doing it' so it must be OK. But...if I have a genuine relationship with God.... He is my Father, and Jesus is my brother, and Lord, and I love them and they love me... then when I sin, I feel like the relationship to my 'family' is broken and needs to be restore. Then I must repent to restore that relationship....no room for living in sin here! So I don't believe in a 'sinning religion' but at 'holy relationship' instead....

Answer 6

11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

it goes on to say in v 23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What this is saying is because you are saved by jesus don`t think that you can happily carry on with your sinning in the confidence of believing your self saved
its saying the opposite ,that because you are under grace you can sin no more .and that the wages of sin are death ,only living in grace will give eternal life

Answer 7

Where is the context, yeah I can pick out a verse and ask a vague question too, but where is the context.

Answer 8

What is a 'sinning religion'?
A religion where sinning is allow?

Answer 9

In what way is it incompatible? Wasn't paul/saul a sinner?

Answer 10

missed bible class again?