Work on one sin at a time. Don't expect to wake up sin-free. Make a list of your most hated behaviors. Pray constantly perhaps Lust first, then addictions, then lying, then money, then, laziness, then arrogance or profanity, being a better listener. Don't expect to solve everything overnight but you are a new creature in Christ and you CAN expect miracles.
Because you consider yourself a sinner and because you label certain things as sins and because you believe that you are already born with a sin committed by Adam and Eve. Stop doing that and you won’t sin again.
According to Romans 5:12 through one man sin entered into the world & death through sin thus death spread to all men because of sin. This is why we keep sinning because we were born with this flaw.
One reason is because people don't actually know what sin is. From many answers here, that is obvious. One suggested that if you view sin as 'eating grasshoppers', then all you have to do to avoid sinning is to avoid eating grasshoppers. Well, what if sin was breathing? Would the simple solution be to stop breathing? What nonsense all such illustrations are! Sin is something intrinsic to our very being, as humans. Yet most people are in denial about that because they have no idea what sin is.
A much better answer was from Rufus with the cartoon of a blindfolded guy about to walk off a cliff, telling the Christian warning him to shut up and stop judging him. The shame was that he prefaced it with "some Christians claim you can stop sin just by viewing this image." No Christian claims it's that easy! Only when the Holy Spirit takes your blindfold off will you see the danger ahead - where sin leads to - a precipice. No Christian can take that blindfold off. Until the Holy Spirit starts to convict a person of their sin before the holy God, they will never grasp the horrific enormity of their sin.
But that doesn't explain why Christians still sin. When a person becomes a Christian, it's because the chains binding them to sin have been smashed and they are to turn away and start walking in the opposite direction. But ingrained sin is not so easy to shake off. It takes time and help from the Holy Spirit to keep away from sin. There has to be deep hatred of all that offends the Holy God, so they have to start learning what and why... many don't, still holding on with one hand to the sin that so easily entangles. Meanwhile, the world still tempts them and tries to mislead them. It's a battle, and only on-going help from the Holy Spirit will give the victory.
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Work on one sin at a time. Don't expect to wake up sin-free. Make a list of your most hated behaviors. Pray constantly perhaps Lust first, then addictions, then lying, then money, then, laziness, then arrogance or profanity, being a better listener. Don't expect to solve everything overnight but you are a new creature in Christ and you CAN expect miracles.
Because you consider yourself a sinner and because you label certain things as sins and because you believe that you are already born with a sin committed by Adam and Eve. Stop doing that and you won’t sin again.
According to Romans 5:12 through one man sin entered into the world & death through sin thus death spread to all men because of sin. This is why we keep sinning because we were born with this flaw.
Because we inherited imperfection ie sin from our first parents Adam and Eve. We are all born sinners.
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One reason is because people don't actually know what sin is. From many answers here, that is obvious. One suggested that if you view sin as 'eating grasshoppers', then all you have to do to avoid sinning is to avoid eating grasshoppers. Well, what if sin was breathing? Would the simple solution be to stop breathing? What nonsense all such illustrations are! Sin is something intrinsic to our very being, as humans. Yet most people are in denial about that because they have no idea what sin is.
A much better answer was from Rufus with the cartoon of a blindfolded guy about to walk off a cliff, telling the Christian warning him to shut up and stop judging him. The shame was that he prefaced it with "some Christians claim you can stop sin just by viewing this image." No Christian claims it's that easy! Only when the Holy Spirit takes your blindfold off will you see the danger ahead - where sin leads to - a precipice. No Christian can take that blindfold off. Until the Holy Spirit starts to convict a person of their sin before the holy God, they will never grasp the horrific enormity of their sin.
But that doesn't explain why Christians still sin. When a person becomes a Christian, it's because the chains binding them to sin have been smashed and they are to turn away and start walking in the opposite direction. But ingrained sin is not so easy to shake off. It takes time and help from the Holy Spirit to keep away from sin. There has to be deep hatred of all that offends the Holy God, so they have to start learning what and why... many don't, still holding on with one hand to the sin that so easily entangles. Meanwhile, the world still tempts them and tries to mislead them. It's a battle, and only on-going help from the Holy Spirit will give the victory.
Because we are not created perfect, and there are many sources of temptation. The closer we stay to Jesus, the less we sin.
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).”
Robert A. Heinlein (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)
Sin is relative to your society.
Because you actually think sin is real, so you are obsessed with it.