Sin or Behavior our Problem.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) My attempt in writing is to keep it simple. Sin Vs behavior. Do they not come from the same womb? Isn’t one the result of the other? Change the behavior and you change lives despite ones religious belief…Sin is ever present and my flesh reveals this daily as I continue in progress to sin less.

Now if I had better teaching growing up and my mother and fathers mothers before them had better teaching, my daily sins would be undoubtedly less based upon my behavior skill, though sin will continuously be ever present.

There are many others in different religions who sins less. Why? Sin is the result of our behavior right? Before we can sin, we have to behave in a way that causes us to sin. What I am simply saying is why not teach behavior sills (which we truly lack) and those seeds will reap.

There was Africaans, Niger, Nigarians, Indians who were before us and history teaches us that they lived in harmony for thousands of years before Jesus Christ was introduced to them (no pun intended; facts right?) & without going into a church listening and discussing the Word of God, they had their own Word from God and prayed, danced, and rejoice too, but most importantly they had family values, respect, Unity govern by Love for their culture and their people.

And we all know from history (fact) how these Countries were taken and introduced to a new religion other than the one they knew was previously sustaining their families for thousands of years before they were entrapped, raped slaughtered and enslaved.

Now, most of America calls ourselves Christians and wonder why our youth are calling us phonies. why? Cause they live with us daily. We lost our sight of Unity, Honesty, Trust, Hope, Security, Belief, Loyalty, and Will, and isn’t this the true source of our Sins? You lose your values, your behavior follows and sins are the result.

Now that most of America follows Jesus Christ, where does the truth lie in self? Today? Who is our example?….

I am not saying anything about Christianity (only truth; facts) or how we was introduced to Christianity, only to respond in saying why sin is the result of a behavior issue.(Psalm Proverbs)…and how going back to the basics of “TEACHING” basic skills may be a better result than expecting memberships knowing what’s going on now within the walls of the church.

There is nothing wrong with problem solving right? Rather than continue on the same route and praying only when God himself has given us the power to overcome all obstacles with the faith of a muster seed. Why we waiting on him when it was him himself who says, I have given you the spirit. Have we little or no faith? Have we not even the faith of a muster seed? Then, tell me why we can no longer move mountains we ourselves created? Is it possibly because that’s what we were taught? We heard someone say “Give it to God” as we stand by and watch our lives disrupted by chaos. TEACHING IS A POWERFUL TOOL AND WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING TAUGHT BY TV on how to think, pray, feel and believe.

We have gotten so confused that we no longer feel his power but yet we want to introduce others to his power. We feel like we have to save people when our job is only to plant seeds. Planting seeds could simply mean saying good morning every morning to your co-worker that you don’t like or giving a small donation to a neighbor who has 6-10 kids. When you keep this up daily, this not only shows the God in you to be present but also makes others curious about the God you serve.

Sometimes we go in for the kill and kill the dream. When God may be saying to relax and take your time and just listen and don’t talk. …I remember when I was 20 and just losing my oldest brother, an older Christian bro around 35 was trying to witness to me and told me I look like the devil because I had on hazel contacts. Say What? See. we lack love and compassion and we lose sight of ourselves instead on understanding the voice of God. How can you teach compassion and love when it wasn’t taught to you? Where are you going to learn it when they tell you God is Love but do not show it?

Oyea, I did say I was young when the older gentlemen said this to me and I had just lost my oldest brother. Let’s just say this older gentlemen did not have time to apologize until 13 years later. You never know what one is going through when you are approaching someone and when one is going through much, it doesn’t take much for CAUSE AND REACTION…I also apologized years later for not having much sense. My non-teaching was the reason for my bad behavior. IJS..

When you read any of my writings you will find that I speak of the origin/source, not the people. Why? Because, I am a part of the people and it’s a chore at times to have to continue to find my origin. Let he without sin cast the first stone, right?. . If you see your plank, this tells me that you are too busy to see others. This is additional teaching which most of us never received along with the teachings of Jesus Christ. God is Love but if you only tell me but do not teach me what Love is, then I am left with Jesus Christ walking in judgment.

Example:

Spoke with my son who was introduced to a racist in the air force. He told me he had fellow airmen asking why he was hanging around this racist airman. My son’s response was “just imagine how much hurt this fellow airman had to deal with growing up as a little boy learning to hate and not understanding why, That’s a lot of negative energy this child had to endure, due to lack of knowledge and he is still carrying a heavy load. I am sure he still has doubt to his truth, though afraid to admit, so I am going to show him I accept him the way he is.

I asked my son how is that fellow airman now. Dad, he made a rap mix CD with him. Now, did the devil make that airman and his family who learned and was taught to hate black people; attending Church as a Christian family learning Jesus Christ; the same as when we was enslaved?

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

We always say the devil made us do it. When in fact, it can be determine that it’s our behavior/origin of our behavior/ and lack thereof that caused us this great pain. Prime example, When Joseph Randle – one of the Dallas Cowboys team members got caught stealing inexpensive cologne and underwear with a 250,000 contract, as I am sure some was thinking; what was he thinking?

I personally wouldn’t ask what Mr. Randall was thinking. I also wouldn’t’ say he is sinning and he needs to know Jesus Christ. I would instead ask, do you need a friend? One who would listen without judgment and one who would assist you finding the origin in why? And then I would offer research to search his origin and deprogram in order to reprogram, holding him accountable once he understood the source.

But still Love him unconditionally, understanding that his behavior could be addiction, meaning, it may re-occur if not treated properly. And after he has seen my character after the many months or years, (planting seeds or watering the seeds already planted) let him asked me what it is about me that makes me different, and then let my actions be my witness on who I serve.

If I steal with him, he will never want to be introduced to who I serve, but if I also share with him that we all have different weaknesses, just some with better exit strategies due to experience. Wouldn’t he trust me even more? Some of us have not experience much as some and that’s great.. I remember asking someone years ago if they knew Jesus Christ. His response…yea I know him. Doesn’t he teach on TBN or something? Everyone has different experiences and it’s imperative that we don’t feed meat to a baby, especially when we ourselves are a baby. We have to be honest with ourselves. When we are honest with ourselves, we have no choice but to be honest with others.

If, I’m hungry, please don’t tell me Jesus will make a way; give me food and show me the Jesus inside you, Then I will follow…

Staff Writer; Barnard Greg

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Northern Magnolia says:

November 12, 2014 at 4:22 am

I have taken my time responding to this, because I wanted to make sure I understood it as much as possible.

You are right: sin will ever be present. The Bible teaches that sin will ever be present as long as we live on this earth, for we have a sinful nature. The teaching of the Bible — I did not say of most churches, for unfortunately this is no longer true — is that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), but that the gift of God is eternal life through the death of Jesus Christ for mankind’s sins, and His resurrection from the dead (Romans 6:23 and I Corinthians 15:1-4). It is also the teaching of the Bible that God has given all those Who believe on His Son the indwelling of His Holy Spirit (John 13-16, Galatians 5) so we can indeed walk in righteousness… but unfortunately, we still sometimes walk in our sinful nature instead (Galatians 5). Now, what I have written here is not taught in many churches; white people in the main did not know it when they came to enslave us, though they called themselves Christians, and so we could not have learned it from them. But God has not left Himself without the ability to minister to His people, of all shades, through the Spirit and the Word…

That same Bible, however, does not teach that better teaching, although we need it desperately, is going to change our sinful nature. We CAN modify our behavior, but God’s standard is revealed as perfection, and that we cannot attain. But, the proclamation of the Gospel is that the Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life, and died a substitutionary death for our sins — for those who believe, God counts Christ’s righteousness to them, and counts their sins as paid for in full by Christ. AND, in addition, those who believe in Christ and His Work are given both a new nature and His Holy Spirit, Who leads them into Godly behavior in keeping with the righteousness of Christ.

TEACHING is important so we can know what God wants — hence, there is much Biblical doctrine that we need to know in order that the Spirit can lead us to obey. But without the leading of the Spirit, Who only comes after we believe in Jesus Christ, none of our obedience can meet God’s standard — for He counts our good behavior only by grace, in Christ.

About honesty with ourselves: yes. I am as much a sinner as anybody out there; I would be doing what anybody else is doing but for the grace of God. As a Christian, I know that I need the forgiveness of my sins as much as anybody out there… and if we as Christians could remember that, we would be better representatives of our Lord in all His forgiving, saving grace. But according to the Scriptures, the goal would not be just to help people change their behavior, but to lead them to Christ, Who can save them from their sin and raise them to life in Him.

For the record: it is true that many, many cultures lived in good harmony before Christianity was introduced. But Romans 1 explains that; the Bible does not describe a world in which there was no knowledge of God before Christ came, but a world in which the founders of all cultures had the knowledge of the true and living God as revealed as Creator — but turned away from that knowledge, making up worship practices of their own. Some cultures retained more knowledge of civilization, of how to act out right and wrong, longer than others. But that is a dangerous argument. Greco-Roman society was very orderly and harmonious in its heyday (more than 200 years, if one counts the Pax Romana), though it was built on conquest and enslavement of all those outside the paradigm. Sin may manifest itself in different ways in different cultures, but the issue is that no culture, despite its civilized externals, measures up to God’s standard. Thus, as the Bible itself says, God concluded all are lost in sin so that Christ could be the Savior of all, without regard to cultural differences.

Young Carter says:

November 11, 2014 at 3:08 am

Personally I struggle with my belief. More so how I believe, or how I show my belief. I guess which is why I keep reading. For me it is difficult to give something (issue) to God. Giving my problem to God makes me feel like I’m ignoring the issue. Personally I do think that I have to show some physical action when seeking to solve a problem. I agree with your behavior notion. It helps our behavior to be taught how to behave. In short I ultimately agree that we should show our Christ-Like Ways inside us through our actions. Yet telling someone Jesus will make a way is not wrong or misleading (personal opinion).
Im still learning that giving an issue to God is a leap of faith in itself, which im still working on. Telling someone to give (it) to God could be just enough encouragement to build their belief or optimism.

Ps I’m a new reader of this wedsite. I may not agree with all that I read or even like it alot of times. Honestly though, I like this website. It helps me to open myself to other view. I can appreciate this website. (23Yr old YBM)