As an atheist/agnostic, am 'I dead in sin?'?

Question

I've heard this said about me and would like to know what it means please.

Thankyou.

Also why do I have 'nothing to live for?' I've heard that said about me, again by religionists ..

Answer 1

Hi, Bajingo.

Second question first: You have everything to live for. God created you in his own image, and he designed you to live forever with him. He knows you and loves you as an individual, and he longs for your love in return.

If you are an atheist or agnostic, you have yet to respond to God's love for you. Usually, the first step is to believe what Jesus taught.

Here is one of Jesus's teachings about faith: "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24).

So to be blunt, the answer to your first question is yes. If you don't yet believe in God, you don't yet have the new life God planned for you. Giving up faith in an absurd and meaningless universe, exchanging it for faith in God who loves you with an intense passion, is the first step in crossing over from death to life.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

"Dead in sins" is an expression that comes from the Bible, Ephesians chapter 2. Basically, it refers to the lack of spiritual life that characterizes someone before they are spiritually reborn. The basic idea is that while Adam and Eve may have passed on biological life after their great sin, they had lost their spiritual life and hence could not pass it on. This is basically the doctrine of original sin, that all humans since the Fall come into the world with an inherent inability to respond to God, and are therefore eternally doomed unless reborn. That is why the theme of rebirth is so prevalent in Christian theology. It is the flip side of spiritual death. You can test whether you are spiritually dead. If you cannot say, with full inward honesty, that Jesus is Lord, you are as yet untouched by the regenerating power of God's Holy Spirit. You are unable to make that confession because you have not experienced the supernatural revelation of its truthfulness. You are locked into an entirely materialistic theory of proof, precisely because materiality is all you have. Your spirit is inert with respect to God, and you are therefore still under the power and consequences of your sin. That is the meaning of “Dead in Sins.” Sorry if it offends. No offence meant. But that's a fair summary of the Christian meaning in that expression. Yes, I am a Christian, and I have to tell you when I became a Christian it was rather like being raised from the dead. It cannot be explained adequately in words. Not only was I not seeking this event, but I was at the time actively increasing my investment in evil. I am grateful now that God is not a “gentleman,” else I would have continued forever in that death state I used to call my life. The grass really is greener on this side of the fence.

Answer 3

Dead in sin means that, without the saving grace of God through Jesus Christ, you are in bondage to sin. Only by repentance of sin, and the cleansing of Jesus, can anyone be forgiven, by God, for all the sins we have committed. Therefore, yes, without Jesus you are, in other words, still in your sins. That doesn't mean you can't, at some point in time, recognize this and come to Christ.

I'm sure you have a nice life, I wouldn't venture to say you have nothing to live for. But without Jesus, you will have no eternal life with God.

Answer 4

Dead in Sin references the condition of your soul. While you are live "in the flesh", your soul is dead because of your sin.

Think of sin like crime that a person is immediately convicted for; if a person committed a crime, they would have culpability for it, even if they ceased its commission. Just as they would be a criminal, dead in liberty, so a person who breaks God's law is a sinner, dead in sin.

There is some division as to how sin is imputed. Calvinism and Catholic doctrine imply that sin is hereditary; that because of Adam's sin, all men are born with sin. I would say that this is not what the Bible communicates; Ezekiel 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die". It seems clear to me that the Bible relates that sin is a personal matter, not on all men.

As for the statement "nothing to live for", I would speculate that this is trying to say that your life is without meaning if it is unspiritual. I would have to disagree, since one can be moral, full of virtue, and pious and have no conviction of faith

Answer 5

Yes, you are spiritually dead. The only thing you have to live for is the free gift of salvation and eternal life that God is offering you, it is your choice, heaven or hell.

We all know where atheists stand, agnostic's are right there next to them because God says either you are with him or you are against him, there is no in-between, no middle ground so as a agnostic in deciding not to choose you still have made a choice.

Answer 6

I don't know what "dead in sin" means.

When people say you have "nothing to live for" it's because they feel that life on Earth would be pointless unless it was for the specific purpose of securing a place in the afterlife. A lot of people can't conceive of the idea of a meaningful life without the goal of "something greater."

Answer 7

If you were dead to sin you would have accepted Jesus as your Savior.

The apostle Paul wrote of Christ, “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 6:10-11).

The fundies dont know the bible as well as they think they do.

Answer 8

All cults have their choice of language. It just goes to show you how delusional they are. They regurgitate drivel that was told to them by pastor and never have an original thought about anything.

Answer 9

I am a Christian..I will say you ran into a self righteous boob. No human is fit to judge another. I wouldn't worry about it. Hear the word take it or leave it ...That is your right.

Answer 10

It means that some people are very willing to cast judgment upon those they don't really know much about.