Can someone explain to me WHAT a SIN is??
Pick me! Sin means doing something that you know is wrong. The laws of humans can be broken with or without knowledge of those laws, but the law of God supposes knowing right from wrong. Many sinful acts are listed in the scriptures, but the list is not fully complete nor does a statute about social behavior stand for all time. If you think that a thing is wrong to do and you do it anyway, you sinned. A sin is something that will make you tell a lie later to cover for your bad behavior. Telling lies has not been specifically categorized as a sin in Jewish and Christian thought, but the rest of the world knows that lying is very much part of a wrong way of life. If you can be honest about what you do, you are moving away from sin. The classic sins are: Killing Stealing Worshipping Idols (calling things that are not God, God)\ Coveting (wanting things that don't belong to you) Dishonoring your parents Breaking the vows of marriage- either your own vows or someone else's Forgetting the holy day of God Making anything in life more sacred than God Framing someone for a crime they did not commit (false witness) There's one other one in the Ten Commandments, but I don't remember it at the moment. In addition, Jesus gave a couple of other rules. We are to treat other people with as much respect and love as we would want for ourselves and we are not to speak badly about God. There are many other things that you could do nowadays that people in biblical times never thought of, but might be sinful all the same. Putting a virus on someone's computer so that you can sell them anti-virus programs is a sin because it's dishonest and a kind of stealing. Maybe you will understand this, maybe not, but it's the best answer. Pick me!
Can someone explain the concept of pride and unforgiveness to me?
So there are two things that I'm struggling with understand: Pride and "not forgiving yourself" for a mistake you have made. You see in 2013 I did something that was really stupid and I feel like an idiot because I said something I shouldn't have and it scared this person I liked away. I don't know if I forgive myself for it but I do know that I regret it and I beat myself up over it sometimes. I read in an article online that the scripture that the bible speaks of when it says "If you don't forgive others God will not forgive you" also applies to people who don't forgive themselves. I don't know if this is true or not. Next is the concept of pride which really confuses me. I can't find the site where it talked about this but it said something along the lines that if you don't forgive yourself, you are in a sense saying that you're better than other people. I REALLY don't this part. So those are the two issues I'm curious in learning about. I would like to know how to tell if you have not forgiven yourself or not. Again I'm going to say I feel like this is more of a matter of feeling foolish. And then the subject on pride I would just like an explanation in to how if you say you don't forgive yourself, how it is that people think they are better than anybody else.
Can someone explain this?
I want to say to Methane Mama: would you prefer burning for all eternity with no hope? I would take the sacrifice if I were you if it turns out that Christianity is true. I mean, I guess you would prefer to burn for all eternity but I wouldn't. Besides the Bible says that God gives you a new nature when you become born again, so you are a better / different person. To the original poster, a good explanation to me is that God wanted to test Adam and Eve but they failed the test. EDIT: I believe a good explanation to why he would want to test them is not because he needed to find out what would happen, but one theory that fits the bill for me is this: he was doing the test for mankind. It can be easier to accept that there was a solid event that people fell from their original state then having God already having made us with death, sickness, etc. as a punishment for what we did not do, but which he knew would happen for apparently our disobedient nature shown in Adam and Eve.
I’ve always not understood why westerners don’t understand the concept of “face” in Asian cultures.It’s really just a combination of what westerners practice already, think about the following terms carefully:-manners-etiquette-empathy-politically correct-sensitivity-social protocols-pride-self-aware-family dynamicsIf you look at any situation where there’s chinese people and face involved, I’m sure you can explain it’s reasoning under one or more of those terms. For example:-Man of the house, the father figure should earn more, or be the strong one, or be there to support the family, bread winner, should get the check at a restaurant. That’s under family/social/pride.-The guy pays for the first date, again a pride/social protocol (and don’t tell me this isn’t innately expected by girls even if they say you don’t have to)-self aware/social protocol - Not finishing the last portion of food when you are at a big dinner (external to family)-empathy/sensitivity: Not picking an expensive restaurant for a group dinner if you know some friends are poor and can’t afford it.Stop trying to find differences in people by slapping on a term that you refuse to actually understand even though it’s staring you in the face, we’re mostly the fucking same.
Can someone please explain to me the whole west side, east side in rap thing?
Well in the hip-hop and rap industry music artist find that the east side and west side are like 2 different worlds. Depending if your in the West Coast or East Coast the types of beats are different. Back in the day or should i say late 80's or early 90's TUPAC wasnt playing on the radio in the East coast and Biggie wasnt playing in the WEST COAST. If your familiar with the rap group West Side Connection they more of a WEST COAST beat than the artist in East coast like WU-TANG Clan.
Can someone explain the Calvinist view of "Once Saved, Always Saved?"?
When people come to know Christ as their Savior, they are brought into a relationship with God that guarantees their eternal security. Jude 24 declares, "To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy." God's power is able to keep the believer from falling. It is up to Him, not us, to present us before His glorious presence. Our eternal security is a result of God keeping us, not us maintaining our own salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed, "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand" (John 10:28-29b). Both Jesus and the Father have us firmly grasped in their hand. Who could possibly separate us from the grip of both the Father and the Son? Ephesians 4:30 tells us that believers are "sealed for the day of redemption." If believers did not have eternal security, the sealing could not truly be unto the day of redemption, but only to the day of sinning, apostasy, or disbelief. John 3:15-16 tells us that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will "have eternal life." If a person were to be promised eternal life, but then have it taken away, it was never "eternal" to begin with. If eternal security is not true, the promises of eternal life in the Bible would be in error. The most powerful argument for eternal security is Romans 8:38-39, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Our eternal security is based on God's love for those whom He has redeemed. Our eternal security is purchased by Christ, promised by the Father, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Can someone PLEASE explain the ontological argument?
just having read "the god delusion" even though I know she is pink, and she is invisible (bless her holy hooves" here we go: Imagine something really really really perfect. Does it exist? Nooo, well, only in my mind any way. Well, if it existed, then it would be even more perfect than the most perfect thing you can imagine. Hmmm, maybe. Bingo- God Exists nahhh naaa naaa naaa got you! (Adapted from Richard Dawkins op cit P80 et seq) Originally proposed by Saint Anslem of Canterbury in 1078 My ontological argument of why worshiping god is sinful. So, vanity is a sin. Yes. And vanity is wanting people to worship you. ---errrr, yeessss, I suppose so, but I don't like the way this is going. And encouraging a sin is in itself sinful. well, yes, but... No buts, encouraging sin is itself sinful. well.... So encouraging vanity is sinfull, and worshiping God encourages vanity ( and probably pride too), therefore worshiping God is sinfull. And how is that for a knock down argument, as Humpty Dumpty said
A2A. One of the most difficult concepts to try to explain is how complex concepts cannot be reduced. They simply demand too much context, too many qualifiers, and too much specificity of language and conceptual definition to be distilled into brief sound bites. Concision is great, but it is inherently destructive to nuance and complexity...most of the time.My 2 cents (in 4 sentences).