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t times Christianity can be
confusing. When you start to
read the Bible, there can be
A names of people and places to say sorry from time to time. At its punishment of sin, and once you get
you have never heard before, words root, it goes past outward actions to to know God, you’ll more clearly
that have little to no meaning outside the very root of our nature, which is understand why He can’t just leave
of the world of faith, and that we are all born with an evil bent. the guilty unpunished (Exodus 34:7).
recognizable things that have a more Because we are naturally in rebellion He is a God of justice, and the end
profound meaning than you’d ever to the standard of good (God), we result of unchecked sin is death
imagine. Like the word sin. Do you are incapable of being good (Romans (Romans 6:23). So, what’s the
know what it means? 3:10, Luke 18:19). In its essence, sin answer? How do we fix it when we
is a coup against God. That is the root can’t do anything good (Romans
THE STORY OF SIN of all evil, and that’s all of humanity's 3:10)?
The first thing that stuck out to me nature from birth.
when I started reading the Bible was The good news is that although we’re
story after story of people doing THE STORY OF GOD incapable of remedying this on our
horrible things. It was pages of But it wasn’t always this way. In the own, Jesus did. Salvation is through
murder, rape, betrayal, and lying. book of Genesis in the Bible, God faith alone, through Christ alone:

Sometimes I couldn’t even make out declared that He made humans in His “For all have sinned and fall short of
who the good guy was. But let’s be own image. Everything was good, but the glory of God, and are justified by
real: not much has changed in sin defiled and corrupted everything His grace as a gift, through the
today’s day and age. We have all (Romans 8). Worse yet, it destroyed redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
been wronged by someone and we our relationship with God. The hard whom God put forward as a
have also all wronged others. We all truth is that sin does not get propitiation by His blood, to be
have seen bad things that demand committed out of obligation, but received by faith. This was to show
justice. It doesn't take much to prove rather out of desire. We want it. Sin God's righteousness, because in His
the existence of sin. But, it still begs is deceitful because it promises to divine forbearance He had passed
the question, “What is it?” give us what we think we want, but it over former sins. It was to show His
ultimately destroys every good thing righteousness at the present time, so
Sin is “transgression of the law” (1 God intended. It leads us to believe that He might be just and the justifier
John 3:4) that occurs because we that God is a liar. of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
know God’s will (Romans 2:14-15) - Romans 3:23-26 ESV
but reject it for our own. But it’s not Every human is rightfully subject to
just that you make a mistake or have the devastation of sin and

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