WHAT IS SIN?

The biblical Greek word for sin is “harmartia” and means “missing the mark” Specifically it is missing the mark of our God-given human vocation to demonstrate God’s own image (Genesis 1:26) i.e. to reflect God’s personality and character – istics. Indeed, it is a missing the mark, of what we as humans were supposed to reflect.

Further Greek words related to sin are: “adakia” which means covenant unfaith-fulness, unrighteousness. “poneria” as evil of a vicious or degenerate kind; “parabasis” as trespass or transgression; and finally “anomia” as lawlessness.

The root of sin is idolatry, that is, the worship of what is not God so that the person becomes completely self-centered rather that God-centered. It concerns breaking faith with God and has the basic elements of: faithlessness, lack of trust, disobedience, pride, covetousness, rivalry, and discontent. Such sinfulness, unfaithfulness, evil transgression, and lawlessness leads to violence that starting with Cain murdering Abel; to the violence we see being enacted all over the world today!

The solution to all this sinful activity has been plainly set before us in the scriptures and it is very plain and simple. Repent, turn away from being self-centered and become God-centered. Believe in the one whom he has sent, Jesus the Messiah, who became a sin-offering sacrifice for all of humanity in order to bring all people to his God and Father Yehovah. He call on us to repent and be baptized [totally immersed] in water and in doing so die to self and rise up as a new creation in the lord Messiah Jesus, receiving the Holy Spirit which enables one to live a life dedicated to keeping the creed of the Messiah: which is loving God with all our being and loving our neighbors as ourselves [Mark 12:28-34].

If all those who come to him will do this, then at the end of this age they will enter into a co-ruling and co-inheriting relationship with the Messiah and will receive with him, all that he will receive, when he comes to take his place on the throne of David and rule for 1,000 years establishing a Theocratic government to rule over the nations.

We can join him in this beautiful endeavor if we will follow the guidelines plainly give to us in the scriptures, realizing that we are helpless human beings that can only do so as we are enabled by the indwelling power of God’s spirit, and the spirit of His son Jesus in us. All of mankind has a choice to choose life in the Messiah Jesus or reject his testimony and choose death and in the end to be destroyed in the lake of fire at the White Throne Judgment at the end of the 1,000 year rule of the Messiah. CHOOSE LIFE!