Is It Okay If I Don't Define It As Sin?

[OneAccord]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Good post.

I look at the sin labeling issue as a bare minimum salvation. Even though people are happy to label everything short of using riding lawn mowers as a sin... they do everything that isn't a sin because everything else IS a sin.

If I lived my married life like that I'd be in pitiful shape.

If I used this reasoning toward my wife... "She won't divorce me if I do this... or She won't divorce me if I do that" then I have picked some pretty poor reasoning to build my marriage on.

And yet so many live their lives saying "God won't send me to hell for doing this... or that".

Why not build my marriage on the thought... "My wife would be so pleased if I did this... or didn't do that." or my relationship with God on thoughts like "I do this... or I refrain from that... because I feel it is pleasing to Him and is in keeping with His Word & Nature."

We were discussing a "standard" years ago and someone said "I don't think God would send me to hell for doing that". I replied. Heaven... hell... that is a fence I left a long time ago. I don't sweat what would send me to heaven or hell because when I step away from that fence I see a mansion in the distance and the King I love lives there.

He bought me entrance to this property and I'm not going to sweat the border between where he saved me from and where I can go... I'm headed in a direction that gets me closer to Him every time I find a way to do it.

If I label thousands of sins... I'll miss one.

If I pursue a deepening relationship with God where I am increasingly able to hear His voice and be led by it. He'll miss nothing.

Good words, Digger. What we do in life should always be motivated by love, not by fear. We should serve God because we love Him, not because we fear Him. The Bible says in 1Jo 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. I have seen alot of Christians tormented by the fear they have incurring God's anger, rather than resting in His love.