The two dimensions of sin (3)

Hs 1 “2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.” Os 3 “1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.”

The fact of giving one’s members to a prostitute is bad. But when God bids one to, the evil is to turn down, because at that time one opposes the ordinance of God. Hosea the prophet, on the order of God, took a prostitute and made ​​three children with her, and loved a woman beloved of her lover, an adulteress. He acted in accordance with the word God had spoken to him and he was just. But any man who gives his body to a prostitute or an adulteress against the word of God is wicked and sinful.

The second commandment (Exodus 20:4) forbids us to make graven images in all forms, whether to represent things that are high in the heavens, in the earth beneath or in the waters below the earth. Anyone who does these things is wicked and guilty of acting against God's word. In the same book of Exodus (chapters 25, 26, 36, 37) we find the command that God gave Moses to make two cherubs of gold of beaten work. Similarly we read in Numbers 21 how God commands Moses to make a brass snake and put it on a pole so that Israel may look at it and survive his snake bites. In both cases Moses is just according to the word of the Lord.

In the second book of Kings (chapter 18) we read that the same brazen serpent that Moses had made in the desert had become a stumbling block to Israel, he began to burn incense to it and worship it. Now, where had God ever ordained that? The brazen serpent had been ordained in the desert and in a precise context and God had given his word in a very clear wording: Nb 21 “8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”  Then Israel made ​​his own inferences and extrapolations, "Oh, glory unto the brazen serpent, it saved us, we need to immortalize it, if we place it in our temple the presence of God will be very powerful , etc." But this is what God had never said. We only find out that the people had natural inclinations to idolatry and tried to meet these inclinations by interpreting the things of God.

All these inferences or extrapolations are thoughts of men and lead to idolatry, but the true word of God left in its wording leads to righteousness. In the New Testament, our Lord speaks of the Father, and the Comforter. Extrapolation experts conclude that God is three, while the Bible emphasizes in the Old and New Testaments that he is one. They go further spreading the pagan doctrine of trinity known of all Gentiles who lived on earth: Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India, etc. something horrible that God has never said: Trinity is not a biblical concept (it does not appear even once in the Bible), in contrast, it is a pagan belief that identifies with all the Gentiles that have marked the history of mankind. God does not call us to make deductions or inductions over his word, but only to believe it and keep its wording.

In connection with the punishment that should hit the children of Israel, namely eating defiled bread in the exile nations, God told Ezekiel to eat barley cake with human dung (Ezekiel 4). Then, after the pleas of Ezekiel, God allowed him to replace man’s feces by cow dung. Eating such impurities in Israel is evil and punishable by law. But here, Ezekiel did so in a fair and acceptable way to God, for it was according to his Word. However he might have been a rebel if he had curtly refused to implement the command.

You ask me where, are you proceeding to, brother Paulin? Everything done according to the Word of God is done under the guidance of the Spirit and is not sin. Ga 5 “16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” And the Spirit is the Word of God (Jn 6:63). Therefore, any act done outside the Word of God is sin because it is the result of human thought.

We all know that killing is a sin, but when God kills, there is no sin. Also, God can give command to a man to kill, the man then does not sin. David consulted the Lord each time before going to shed the blood of the enemies of Israel. And God answered him by a yes or a nay. When God said to David, go kill and destroy such people, and David then would exterminate the people in question and he was fair and acceptable before God. His hands were covered with blood and he was not eligible to build God’s house. But he was the man after God's heart. When a man kills on his own initiative or at the stubbornness of his own heart, he sins, but when he commits the same act to the word of God, he does not sin.

We all know that sex is defilement and all those who are born as a result of this act are defiled. In fact, a sexual act, even in the context of marriage, has never been a desire of the spirit but of the flesh. The spirit does not need it, and when our bodies will put on incorruption, we will experience sexual desire no more because we will be like angels (Luke 20:27-36). In this body of flesh, God has granted it because we burn in our flesh and we lack continence, simply: 1Co 7 “8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”  The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world was to be without spot, stain or blemish. That is why he was not to be born as a result of a sexual act. We all other men are born in iniquity, our mothers conceived us in sin (Psalm 51:5), and we are born sinners and unclean, no matter whether the sexual act took place in a context of legal marriage, prostitution, adultery or incest.

Job said in turn: Job 14 “4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.”  We can see that the first act one has to abstain from in a special time of consecration and prayer is sex, as we read in the first book of Paul to the Corinthians (Chapter 7:4-5). Similarly we read in Ex 19 “15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.” It was part of the rite of sanctification of the people about to approach the presence of God at Mount Sinai (read also 1S 21: 4).

But above everything foregoing, the Bible says: 1Co 7 “28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned,” provided that everything goes in the Lord (v. 39). And in the context of marriage, it gave this order about sex: “4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”

We see that marriage according to the word of God is not sin and sex in the context of marriage is granted by God, though defiled. In contrast, the same act outside of marriage is sin in all its forms; it is nevertheless the same act. Hence, the question arises: what is sin? Answer: all that is done outside of the word of God.

Let us imply remain within the limits of the word of God, carefully observing its terms without making our interpretations, and we will not sin. This is what Paul declares in saying Ga 5 “16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”  This is also what John declares when he says: 1Jn 3 “6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not; 9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” Indeed those who believe and act within the limits and the wording of the Word, it is quite impossible for them to sin because God approves of everything they do.

Also we notice that we have to bow down to God's sovereignty and before His Word alone. He alone, by His Word, has the definition of sin, and therefore also the monopole to judge the sinner. Hence he advises us not to judge lest we should be judged. We have indeed seen that here on earth, the same actions that are approved as righteous before God are also the same that are abhorred by him, whether they are performed on or without divine order. Any act without divine command ignores His sovereignty and is an act of rebellion. One case in this passage: Jr 18 “12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.”

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