“To Sin or Not to Sin” that is the question

By Cal Cook

The Bible it’s been said is the history of a God who created us to be with Him in a paradise. Only He gave us freewill and with it we’ve chosen to separate ourselves from a perfect and Holy God. The rest of the Bible is about that same God drawing us back to Him, reconciling our sin nature with His pure light. The first two chapters of the Bible speak of a paradise with God, and the last two speak of a new paradise on a new earth with God. The whole rest of the Bible is about reconciliation, it’s about restoration, and it’s about drawing us from the darkness into the marvelous light!  

The fall of man (and woman) was caused by our desire for knowledge, not just any old knowledge but the knowledge of good and evil. Our desire to become like God caused us to believe the lie instead of the truth and reap the consequences God clearly told us of beforehand…death. The Bible is clear not only here in the Garden but in many places have we not learned “the wages of sin is death.” Death is the problem and our sin is the cause.

Now maybe you say, “I didn’t cause that problem back in the Garden so why do I have to face death?” The problem of course dwells in each one of us, we all desire things that we know are not good for us, and we all have done and said things that even according to our own standards are wrong. That sin nature is part of each of us…did we inherit it from Adam and Eve or is it something we each choose on our own? I don’t know, many have laid the problem at the feet of Adam and Eve yet I find that a bit of a copout. We each freely choose our actions and no God made me this way is not an excuse…it doesn’t work for criminals why would it work for anything or anyone else?

Our freedom to choose is part of those inalienable rights written in our Declaration of Independence, we choose life, liberty and even what we perceive as happiness of our own freewill…endowed by our creator. Freewill abounds, especially for us in this country! Let’s not take it for granted…let’s use our freedom to choose. Yes we can use our freedoms in Christ to sin, but why would we want to? Sin only leads to death, let’s choose life instead!