The Soul That Sins E-Book

Agbolade O. Olalekan

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

No matter how much effort we invest, sin and its accompanying evil will remain unexplainable. Why? Because of the lies and the deceits. Inherent in sin is the denial of truth. We cover up our unwholesome motives and violent acts against others with a veneer of goodness. We sugarcoat our garbage. Everyone has a stake in hiding the truth of sin. This makes uncovering the mystery of how sin works difficult, because wherever and whenever we dig, lies rush in to fill the hole. Lying frustrates the process of reasonable conversation and thinking. More than this, sinful activity is at bottom both self-destructive and world-destructive.

We are born into the state of sin, even though we do not commit actual sins until after we arrive. But these moderns redefinition do not really erase our problem. Now the question arises again. If I am born into a sinful state, how can I personally be responsible for that state? Why am I in need of salvation? 

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Agbolade O. Olalekan

The Soul That Sins

The estrangement of Man by Man-Adam and the reconciliation to God by Man-Christ

To the Lord Jesus Christ who bore our sins and our infirmities and through whom this whole tragic event of estrangement is turned into salvation and reconciliation. To the Holy Spirit my inspirer through whom inspiration is given. To the great men and women of God all over the world who have taken upon themselves the Holy cross of Christ. To every generation who inherited Adamic nature and earnestly longing for salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

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THE SOUL THAT SINS

The estrangement of Man by Man-Adam and the reconciliation to God by Man-Christ Jesus

AGBOLADE O. OLALEKAN

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Copyright © 2020 Agbolade O. Olalekan

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All Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, King James Version

(Authorized Version), unless otherwise stated. Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

Subject: Spiritual Non-Fiction.

THE SOUL THAT SINS

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First Printing Edition, 2020

ISBN: 978-3-7487-5650-7

Dedication

To the Lord Jesus Christ who bore our sins and our infirmities and through whom this whole tragic event of estrangement is turned into salvation and reconciliation.

To the Holy Spirit my inspirer through whom inspiration is given.

To the great men and women of God all over the world who have taken upon themselves the Holy cross of Christ.

To every generation who inherited Adamic nature and earnestly longing for salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acknowledgement

We are sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small by every medium in which knowledge is acquired, be it book, magazine, article, video tape, internet, etc.

I am specially grateful for the inspiration, wisdom of great men of God, spiritual transformational sources and roots of wisdom in which I have become a partaker both directly and indirectly like Pastor E. A. Adeboye, Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, Dr. D. K. Olukoya, Kenneth E. Hagin, Watchman Nee, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Myles Munroe, Prof. Ted Peters, Billy Grahams, Henry W. Frost, Helmut Thielicke, Bob Deffinbaugh.

I also appreciate the spiritual warmness and support of the elders, friends and my wife - Agbolade T. Adepeju.

The only one prayer I have for you all is that, May you not be found wanting in the kingdom when Christ shall return in Jesus name, (Amen).

Preface

 WHAT IS SIN? The Greek words that are translated as “sin” in the New Testament include hamartia, meaning “to miss the mark,” as if an archer’s arrow were to miss hitting the target; adikia, meaning “injustice” or “un-righteousness”; and anomia meaning “to be without the law” or “lawlessness”.

Sin is a transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. Sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. Sin comprehends not only action (commission), but neglect of known duty (omission), all evil thoughts, purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. Actual sin is the act of a moral agent in violating a known rule of duty. Original sin, as generally understood, is native depravity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature of deterioration of the moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam's apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive act of disobedience to the divine will, or by the voluntary neglect to comply with the express commands of God, which require that we should love God with all our heart and soul and strength and mind, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Prof. Ted Peters, a Systematic Theologian, described sin as an ultimate religious devotion to a finite interest. It is an overriding loyalty or concern for the self, its existence and its prestige, or for the existence and prestige of a group. From this deeper sin, that is, from this inordinate love of the self and its own, stem the moral evils of indifference, injustice, prejudice, and cruelty to one's neighbour, and the other destructive patterns of action that we call "sins".

I was let into this subject when I was preparing to write books on subjects relating to my field of studies. I never planned writing book on religion subject, all I wanted was on professional and academics. But each time I put the resources together to start composing, I was always disturbed in my spirit until I had a revelation from the Lord regarding a sinful king in a small kingdom who oppresses and executes the inhabitants of the small kingdom because of sin. I was now beginning to think of where to start. He said start at the beginning and stop at the end. I picked up my pen, I wrote down “IN THE BEGINNING”, “IN THE END”. I began to meditate on what happened in the beginning and how sin started and also what will happen in the end. This eventually led me to this title “THE SOUL THAT SINS”.

No matter how much effort we invest, sin and its accompanying evil will remain unexplainable. Why? It is because of the lie and the deceit. Inherent in sin is the denial of truth. We cover up our unwholesome motives and violent acts against others with a veneer of goodness. We sugarcoat our garbage. Everyone has a stake in hiding the truth of sin. This makes uncovering the mystery of how sin works difficult, because wherever and whenever we dig, lies rush in to fill the hole. Lying frustrates the process of reasonable conversation and thinking. More than this, sinful activity is at bottom both self-destructive and world-destructive.

From my own simple point of view and in connection with this book, I simply define sin as temporal pleasure that destroys everlasting treasure. The notion of the state of sin needs attention. What is “the state of sin”? It is the condition in which we find ourselves estranged from God. Our relationship with God is broken, and this fundamental break causes other breaks, such as alienation from other people and even from us. The broken relationship with God, who is the source of all life, is what subjects us to death and anxiety over the prospect of nonbeing. In this situation of estrangement, we act. And an act that expresses this estrangement is an act of sin.  As we grow and come into our own personal consciousness, we wake up to find ourselves already within the state of sin. When we commit a sin, we do not present evil for the first time to a previously innocent world. Sin was here before we arrived. We are drawn into sin by forces that surround us. In this sense we are not the sole authors of what we do.

There have been many objections to the idea of original sin. It seems unfair. Put most succinctly, the question we raise is this: why should I be blamed for something Adam and Evil did? Just because Adam and Eve could not resist the temptation of eating the forbidden fruit, is it just for God to punish me and everyone else in my generation?

When we described Adam's eating of the Eden apple as the onset of the malady of sin that has been passed-on to all subsequent generations through genetic contagion, we began to see ourselves as suffering for what our ancestor did. Our only guilt is that we were born into Adam’s family, which really involves no personal guilt at all. The theologian of twentieth century put the Idea of a “state of sin” as distinct from the “actual sin” that individual commits. We are born into the state of sin, they suggested, even though we do not commit actual sins until after we arrive. But these moderns redefinition do not really erase our problem. Now the question arises again. If I am born into a sinful state, how can I personally be responsible for that state? Why am I in need of salvation?