Sin, Sinning, Sinfulness

Okay, so this is a very half formed idea and I hope it comes out right but if it doesn’t then please feel free to comment, correct and rebuke if necessary. The idea for this post has come from a few different conversations I have had with friends as well as some points in sermons that I have been thinking about.

Someone asked me what I thought about issues such as the ordaining of homosexual ministers once and my first thought was that it was a terrible thing (before anyone jumps down my throat about this- this is not the aim of my post). Anyway, a little while later I was speaking to a friend about whether it would be worse for a minister to be having an affair, be gay or something else (I cant remember), I was a little unsure about my answer to this and it wasn’t until he said that he thought they were the same that I thought about it in terms of how we view sin and how God views sin. (Please note that I do not have my bible with me so I am not backing this up with references)

As a person I have found that my very hypocritical view of sin is that certain sins are worse than others- for example, sex outside of marriage is much worse than lying (on a small scale) or gossiping. However I don’t think this is the truth. When this was pointed out to me I started to think about it in other terms.

I was thinking about what sin actually is- rejecting God’s authority and his rules- something I am particularly well adept at, and yes, part of this is deliberately ignoring the bibles guidelines but it is also much bigger- IGNORING GOD!!! Jesus said that the most important laws to follow were “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul ad with all your mind.” And the second is “Love your neighbour as yourself”. My thought on this is that I can never “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul ad with all your mind.” God is not in my head all the time- I am far too selfish for that. If these are the most important commandments to keep- I think they are also the hardest. I have never murdered anyone, I have never committed adultery, and I think in my mind these are much worse than the others- because you can see the results- there is something to judge whereas other people may not necessarily see the other stuff- unless people can see all of my thoughts then that is between me and God.

So here is my question, when asking for God’s forgiveness- is it important to pray for the smaller stuff or should we just be praying about loving God- all of the other stuff comes into that one commandment. I guess I am trying to very ineloquently talk about which is what- sins as individual bits and pieces such as when I was younger and we had to go to confession at church and we would ‘confess’ our sins (we had them all lined up ready to go- I lied to my mum, I punched my sister, etc.), sinning as in committing sins- and the idea of deliberately doing something or not doing something we are supposed to be doing, and sinfulness as in our nature and our very ignoring of God and not putting God before everything else and loving Him with all my heart, mind and soul.

I guess when it comes down to it- what should I be praying about? Small individual sins, sinning, or being sinful- all of the above? Is there a difference?

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The Den of Iniquity

I have just come home from a friends birthday party- we went out for dinner (by the end of which she was on her 7th drink) then moved on to a night club. This club was packed to the brim with sweaty dancing/ jumping around and touching people- I mean you couldn't actually move anywhere without touching or being touched by people- for someone who is not particularly fond of people invading my personal space this was quite intrusive and uncomfortable. Secondly, there seemed to be only one purpose in people being there- to pick up. Girls tried to pretend they were there to have a good time with their friends while guys didnt even bother pretending they were there with any other purpose. People where in various states of undress (thinking that they were fully dressed I am sure) and spilling of drinks on people, the floor and any other surface available. Maybe I just just couldn't appreciate it because I was sober- noone else seemed to be- I was a bit like a fish out of water really floundering around and to be completely honest- bored out of my brain- maybe thats what was wrong with them they had all become so bored their brains had fallen out leaving only the impulse to dance and make out.

After the club we moved on to a pub for Karaoke where more drunk people where making complete fools of themselves (and I dont mean the singers)- I just dont understand the point of getting so sloshed that you behave like a fool and then probably wont remember it the next day because you have killed off those particular brain cells!!!

I finally escaped to come home only to have a group of idiots try to commit suicide by dancing with my car (while it was moving) Ah, the joys of alcohol and drinking to excess- what a shame I was the designated driver.