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[A hard saying to understand] (23) (What is Actual Sin?) (자범죄란 무엇인가?) (영문)
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2019-07-28 00:15:54, 조회 : 2,563 |
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[A hard saying to understand] (23) (What is Actual Sin?) (영문)
자범죄 (Peccatum Actuale)란 무엇인가?❓❓❓
There are some people among the Christians, who deny the original sin, and accept the only actual sins of man. Such people deny the peccatum originale derived from Adam, while they admit the only peccatum actuale that they do actually break the laws in person in the field of life. The actual sins are not the inherent sin derived from Adam but the sins which we ourselves commit in the course of lifetime. In this sense, the original sin should be used in the singular but the actual sins in the plural.
The people who have poor knowledge of theology should be easy to confuse this matter because the Bible expresses all the sins as only \"sin\" without distinction between the original sin and the actual sins. They do not have the least interest in or deny the original sin. They misunderstand that we will perish due to the sins which we committed in the lifetime because they do focus on the only actual sins. But if the atonement shall not be made for us, we shall perish no matter what our works due to the original sin derived from Adam before our birth (Psalm 52:5; Rom. 5:12). We can know the relation between the original sin and the actual sins understanding them in two dimensions.
(1) Firstly, actual sin may be interior, such as a particular conscious doubt or evil design in the mind, or particular conscious lust or desire in the heart; but they may also be exterior, such as deceit, theft, adultery, murder, and so on (Ps. 51:5). The intrinsic sins reproduced within the mind likewise means the depravity derived from the original sin, and directly rooted in the center of man at birth. These sins are not controlled by \"the Mosaic laws\" (Matt. 18:16; 2 Cor. 13:1; 1 Tim. 5:19; Num. 35:30; Deu. 19:15) depending on the evidence of external behaviors but by \"the law of Christ\" (1 Cor. 9:21; Matt. 5:26) which can ferret the last penny of sins deeply rooted in the mind and even the soul.
Therefore whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Matt. 5:28), and whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15). Paul did dramatically explain this matter in the chapter seven. \"O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?\"(Rom. 7:24).
(2) Secondly, the actual sins may also be exterior, such as deceit, theft, adultery, murder, and so on. While the existence of original sin has met with widespread denial, the presence of actual sin in the life of man is generally admitted. This does not mean, however, that people have always had an equally profound consciousness of sin. We hear a great deal nowaday about the \"loss of the sense of sin,\" though Modernists hasten to assure us that, while we have lost the sense of sin, we have gained the sense of sins, in the plural of definite actual sins. But there is no doubt about it that people have to an alarming extent lost the sense of the heinousness of sin, as committed against a holy God, and have largely thought of it merely as an infringement on the rights of one's fellow-men. Their view of sin put weigh on the only ethical relation with man rather than the relation with God.
Although the original sin has been used in the singular because Adam sinned once, the actual sins have been used in the plural because all people sin themselves a lot of time. One man Adam sin once (Rom. 5:12-14), that is original sin, while Jesus has once accomplished the redemption for the human-being through His sacrifice on the Cross. And our salvation has been once done and applied to us through the faith for which God had once given (Heb. 9:12, 25, 26).
But we cannot help continuously committing the actual sins derived from the original sin from our corruptive mind to our behaviors, and so we must be forgiven through the repentance for our sins depending upon the merit of the cross whenever we sin. And it has had the very close relation between original sin and actual sins, therefore they have the continuity and discontinuity. Even though the unbelievers seem to be actually perished due to their actual sins in the present state of the continuity to the original sin, they perish basically due to the original sin connected to their actual sins. The outcome is the reason why they have not been forgiven for the original sin connected closely to the actual sins.
But the believers do not eternally perish due to the original sin, and yet they must struggle with the only actual sins committed by the desire of flesh in the lifetime. The believers born again must never lost their spiritual life (salvation), while their actual sins should be forgiven by the means of chastening and repenting (Heb. 12:5-13).
The regeneration as the real outcome of the \"justification\" by faith means the eternal inheritance (John 3:3-5; Col. 3:24) through the ontological change (the adopted son of God) to which it changed to be a new creature (1Cor. 5:17) who is only once born again, and yet born-again believers should fight with the actual sins depending on their effort of works by faith in the lifetime to death until Christ is formed in them (Gal. 4:19). This process means the \"ordo salutis' which is theologically called \"sanctification.\"
The regeneration as the outcome of the redemption for the original sin is the ontological change (new birth: new creature), and the sanctification as the outcome of the forgiveness for the actual sins means the change of personality (maturity: continuos growth). We can definitely recognize the principle of right salvation only when we analyse the corelation between \"regeneration\" and \"sanctification\" in the method of analogue, and comprehend and synthesize in the method of digital, otherwise we cannot know and keep in mind the certain and clear form of salvation.
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