Why is Sin so Bad? Part 2

Why is Sin So Bad? Part 2

“We do know for sure that sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Think about it. Take a human being in full health. As time passes, this person begins to deteriorate. The skin wrinkles, the hair grays, the vision decreases while the life forces diminish. Death comes with the passing of time. When there has been no heart trouble, no cancer or other disease, we say they died from natural causes. Natural causes?

Yes, we know what is meant by natural causes. But is death natural? Or is it average, median, and inevitable? Is it natural for this intricate, complex human body into which had been breathed the breath of life by God Himself to die, to cease to exist, to return to dust? Should that which comes from the hand of life itself wither and die as the grass of the field?

No, death is unnatural. God gave man life. It was God's intention that man was to live. Sin is bad. Sin has thwarted God's purpose (temporarily that is). What could be so strong as to counter the will of God? Sin is not only bad but sin is strong. Sin brings forth death. But while the life, affected by sin, does exist, it causes those who possess it to mistreat others.

Sin is bad. Sin is strong. It causes man to mistreat his fellow man, and when it is finished it brings forth death. Could it get any worse?

Yes. God created man in His own image. Man fell in sin. God takes human flesh and comes to earth to save man. What does man do? Man kills God. Man kills God. How bad can it get? This must be the height of evil. Could there be anything worse?

Yes, there is something worse. God has forgiven man for putting His Son to death. God has forgiven man for man's inhumanity to his fellow man. God's work of grace in the Person of His dear Son has atoned for the sins of mankind. Just as all became sinners in Adam, all become righteous, forgiven, accepted in Jesus Christ, the new Adam.

But sin, that bad, strong thing, so affects we poor, fallen, finite, fallible human beings who see through a glass darkly, that we are unable to clearly discern the full meaning of God's saving act in the Person of His Son. We are looking for our part in the salvation process. What must I do to be saved? Where do I fit in? (If Acts 2:37, 38 were the only texts we have, we could stop right here. There are others, you know.)”

Yesterday we summarized that sin is bad because it is a violation of God’s righteous law, it is hurtful and can imprison us, there is no good that comes from sin, and the presence of sin reveals an absence of God. Today we see that sin makes evil seem good and good seem evil, that it brings forth death which is against God’s original design, that is causes man to mistreat one another, that it results in noxious arrogance (just as it did with satan), and causes confusion.

Why is sin so bad? It leads to death but God’s desire for us is life.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness. (John 10:10)

Some excerpts from http://www.christianitysconfusion.com/sinhowbadisit.htm