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Rom 5:13; for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 7:7; What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
Rom 7:8; But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
Rom 7:9; I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
1 Cor 15:56; The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
Gal 3:24; Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
Without the law, there would be no sin. If God never gave us laws... we wouldn't even know what sin was.
We do not define sin. Society does not define what sin is. (Society says abortion and homosexuality aren't sins).
Lying is a sin... Stealing is a sin... Murdering is a sin.... Fornicating is a sin... Worshiping idols is a sin....
Having an affair with someone elses spouse is a sin.... Having sex if you aren't married is a sin....
Taking God's name in vain is a sin.... Telling a lie about your neighbor is a sin.... Coveting what belongs to
other people is a sin....
How do we know this.... instinct? Perhaps, God does say he will write His laws on our hearts. ( Heb 8:10; )
But even if it's instinctively knowing the law... it's still the law.
Now of course some people who call themselves Christians take these passages to mean now that they aren't under the law, they can no longer sin. But that isn't what these verses are saying. They are saying without the law, we wouldn't even no what sin was. There would be no definition of sin. None of us would be able to sin, because sin could not exist without the law.
Jesus goes a little further and adds to the law of the old covenant. He says that even looking a woman lustfully is the same as committing adultery. Even hating someone or calling them "good for nothing" is the same as murder.
Jesus has set us free of the "law" of sin.
Rom 8:2; For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Some Christians believe that Gentiles were never under the law. It's that's true then Gentiles could never sin.
If Gentiles can't sin, then there is no need for Jesus.
Jesus died to pay the price for our sins. He was lamb that was slain
John 1:29; The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Of course there are dozens of verses in the old testament that say not only Jews were under the law.
Even in the New testament you had to be circumcised to be "a Jew". In this case it didn't mean your were biologically a Jew, you were just a Gentile that followed Jewish law in order to follow Judaism.
If you didn't follow the Jewish Torah, you could not be of the Jewish faith, plain and simple.
Next.. scriptures in the old testament that say Gentiles were under the law.
Rom 7:7; What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
Rom 7:8; But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
Rom 7:9; I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
1 Cor 15:56; The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
Gal 3:24; Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
Without the law, there would be no sin. If God never gave us laws... we wouldn't even know what sin was.
We do not define sin. Society does not define what sin is. (Society says abortion and homosexuality aren't sins).
Lying is a sin... Stealing is a sin... Murdering is a sin.... Fornicating is a sin... Worshiping idols is a sin....
Having an affair with someone elses spouse is a sin.... Having sex if you aren't married is a sin....
Taking God's name in vain is a sin.... Telling a lie about your neighbor is a sin.... Coveting what belongs to
other people is a sin....
How do we know this.... instinct? Perhaps, God does say he will write His laws on our hearts. ( Heb 8:10; )
But even if it's instinctively knowing the law... it's still the law.
Now of course some people who call themselves Christians take these passages to mean now that they aren't under the law, they can no longer sin. But that isn't what these verses are saying. They are saying without the law, we wouldn't even no what sin was. There would be no definition of sin. None of us would be able to sin, because sin could not exist without the law.
Jesus goes a little further and adds to the law of the old covenant. He says that even looking a woman lustfully is the same as committing adultery. Even hating someone or calling them "good for nothing" is the same as murder.
Jesus has set us free of the "law" of sin.
Rom 8:2; For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Some Christians believe that Gentiles were never under the law. It's that's true then Gentiles could never sin.
If Gentiles can't sin, then there is no need for Jesus.
Jesus died to pay the price for our sins. He was lamb that was slain
John 1:29; The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Of course there are dozens of verses in the old testament that say not only Jews were under the law.
Even in the New testament you had to be circumcised to be "a Jew". In this case it didn't mean your were biologically a Jew, you were just a Gentile that followed Jewish law in order to follow Judaism.
If you didn't follow the Jewish Torah, you could not be of the Jewish faith, plain and simple.
Next.. scriptures in the old testament that say Gentiles were under the law.
