Re: something I would like to go over with
Good idea.
I think from a muslim perspective, none of us are perfect, we are all going to sin, apart from the innocent ones such as the Prophets PBUT. but this was all intended buy God, so that when we do sin we seek refuge in him and turn to him and ask for repentance and he forgives us.
What about in christianity? Am i right in saying we all have original sin because Adam sinned, so we are all born sinners? Islam doesn't teach us this, we believe only a man is responsible for his own deeds and not someone else's sin.
yes good idea
lets see our differences...indeed we have many similarities.
Yes Chrsitians believe in original sin...
we can read about this in Rom 5:12 1 Cor 15:22
In the Old testment Even David mentions in Ps 51:5 "I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
The Bible makes it so clear that what happened to Adam had radical consequences for us..we all fell together.
If people are born innocent then why do
all people sin, not even 1 % of people stay innocent throughout their life. We cannot blame our society...because what corrupted the society in the beginning?
God calls us to be perfect and Holy even as he is Holy in 1Peter 1:16
So we must measure ourselves by God himself...not by mans standarda of what we think is good or bad. Who are we to judge?
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
So easy it is to compare ourselves with other people as long as we can find someone worse, more wicked than ourselves...We can then easily think somehow we where acceptable in the sight of our Holy God.
When we compare ourselves to God we can then begin to realise how seriously sinful we are, that we need redemption from our sin. God demands perfection...no sin.
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me"
God even turned his face from Jesus...when on the cross he took our sins away...My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me!
Pslams 22
My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?". Jesus quoted this Psalm in order to draw attention to it and the fact that He was fulfilling it there on the cross.
Pslams 22
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
The first thing sin does in a Christian's life is to separate us from the fellowship of God. God is Holy and will not look upon sin. Our sin causes God to turn His face away from us. When fellowship is broken we can pray, BUT there will be no answer. We can read the Bible, BUT, the Holy Spirit will not guide and teach us, the Bible as no understanding.
