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| Many faiths simply define sinning as transgression of the law...
1Jo 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Now lets see the Greek behind the words and translate them.
1Jo 3:4 Whosoever does sin-offering is doing guilt :and: sin-offering is about guilt.
The Greek word "poieo" means to do, and there are much stronger words for 'trampling' or 'transgressing' if that was needed here. The Greek word "anomia" means 'guilt' or 'iniquity'.
Why is it the KJV is so inconsistent in their translation of Greek or Hebrew words? Here both poieo and anomia are translated correctly...
Mt 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
There are only 13 verses in the NT that use 'guilt' or 'anomia', so you can look them up and see that 'guilt' is an affect from sinning, but it is not a total definition for missing. In order to perceive missing you need the sinner, the standard and the medium. Thus sinning is all about relationships, not breaking rules per se'.
When Lucifer missed the mark, He broke off having a relationship to the Father as shown by the medium. When humans missed the mark in the Garden of Eden, the standard was the same but the medium was more simplified by the physical symbol of eating fruit from a tree. From Mt Sinai times the standard is the same Father�s laws but the medium of expressing this were ten words expressed by the Holy Spirit using cultural understanding. In the New Testament, the standard is still the same, but Jesus renewed the medium expression of the standard with a renewed expression of love shown in the example of a personal Saviour demonstrating His Father�s standard.
The reason why the standards change is because love is an attitude and while love can be written as rules, love is an attitude that goes beyond mere boundaries of behaviour.
2Co 3:6 � Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Holy Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Holy Spirit giveth life.
The reason why the letter kills, is because we are found guilty of missing. The Holy Spirit is able to make our sin-offering guilt vanish through the blood of Jesus, so in this medium, we can be offered ongoing life; but not if we deliberately trample God's love rules; however the Holy Spirit gives life since we are no longer under a curse should we ignorantly offend those rules of love.
Ga 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
When mankind sinned Jesus offered to be mankind�s Saviour for without divine help no person could change the natural ruling power of Satan over their lives. Jesus got His chosen people the Hebrew believers to practice the salvation symbols before Jesus would come to demonstrate them in the flesh.
At Mt Sinai we have the salvation process told in a very special arrangement, based on three relationships�.
In order not to miss the mark of the Father�s laws, and hence having an unbroken relationship to the Father, Jesus came, to become a divine bridge that links those who have missed the mark, back to the Father.
This is achieved by the Father�s ten words (commandments) becoming a symbol of the lampstand, and the torah ( Jesus witness for the Father�s standard) being the light.
Since this Bible verse is also a parallel, the two concepts are essentially the same idea just expressed in two similar ways. The torah was placed in the side of the Father�s laws as a witness to the Father�s laws. Later on Jesus would come in person and physically witness His torah instructions of salvation, showing to all mankind the standards of salvation in absolute perfection.
The Saviour spoke types and antitypes from Mount Sinai to prepare Jesus� physical entry to earth, and to define His Father�s standard and His own witness to that standard in writing, in books called the Old Testament scriptures.
Now that the standard was established in writing, Jesus watched His Hebrew believers seeing difficulty in following by faith the Saviour�s power in their lives, that would over throw Satanic ruling in their minds and replace this with the ruler ship of Jesus, in the personal presence of the medium, the Holy Spirit.
The people were still under the ruling power of Satan, despite being under the ruling power of Jesus, and these two powers wrestled for dominion of every soul called into the desert on route to the Promised Land. Jesus saw a few problems, first the people saw the standards as so physical that they felt they could obey them in their own power, and second the medium was not empowered fully to overthrow Satan as the prince of planet earth. Jesus promised to empower the Holy Spirit as a better medium, and Jesus also promised to demonstrate the true nature of the Father�s standard as reaching into the very attitudes of mankind, beyond the perceived aspects of the letters of moral behaviour.
When Jesus died on the cross, some aspects of the torah of salvation was fulfilled in Jesus, He became our High Priest, the sanctuary changed from earth to heaven, and the need for sacrifice of a lamb stopped as Jesus was the Lamb, but many other torah instructions from older times still apply as they have always had. Satan too was defeated as the prince of this earth, and now Jesus could with the free will permission of believers empower them unto salvation like never before, more fully under the power of the medium, the Holy Spirit.
Now Jesus could present His torah of salvation in these terms:
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Here we see the two aspects of the standard, the commandments of Jesus and the commandments of the Father. In Mt Sinai times the Hebrew people saw these two concepts as a united whole. In New testament times they are also seen as a united whole.
Ro 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (KJV)
Here Paul describes both concepts as holy, the torah is holy and the commandments are holy. This is the same as Jesus commandments (torah) and the Father�s ten words , both are holy.
The purpose of the torah or Jesus commandments was a schoolmaster to bring us to the Father�s standards of love, and while this does not do away with Jesus instructions for salvation, it does make them secondary, and the Father�s laws of salvation primary. However for mankind we cannot obey the Father�s laws in our own strength, so we are indebted to Jesus as our Saviour and His instructions for our ongoing salvation. The Father�s laws define love. Jesus laws provide a solution for complete love. Both are required by Christians because our love is incomplete.
While we could wrestle with difficult passages of Scripture in the New Testament, about what missing the mark really means, this devotional will show the aspects with as much simplicity as possible.
The medium allows Jesus to show us their way of overcoming sinning. In the universe are love rules defined as attitudes.
That love always included grace, mercy and forgiveness, but this perception of love was never demonstrated because nobody was ever found missing. Since Adam's missing, Jesus has come to personally demonstrate additional aspects of love than was never demonstrated to the sinless universes before, and this is why we have Jesus teachings which are a witness of love, that the Father wants us to perceive. Hence both the Fathers commandments and Jesus commandments are similes of each other.
Let's now make sinning really simple, using mother nature objects lessons to help us understand. This is why the Bible uses object lessons, parables and symbols as well as poetry so we can associate the spiritual with literal objects we understand better.
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This concept only makes sense if we see our lives in a relationship to God, or as a relationship to Satan.
This concept also postulates that wickedness cannot exist on its own. In fact wickedness cannot exist unless God defines wickedness with God�s presence.
What God has given man are different revelations of the medium. First there was the fiery stones that defined the Father�s standard. Thus we have salvation based on relationships to three objects�.
