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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

All 50 Shades of Gray Are Inpure and Not of God

God seeks purity.  The love that God seeks is defined by the John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." God also tells us that love is pure, and contains no fear. In John 4:18 "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."


Fear is the root of many other sins, for example a factor that drives people to judge.  I believe that the desire to judge results when one feels the need to improve due to a feeling of inferiority in their own situation.  They build themselves by creating structures/boundaries/rules/paradigms that support their position and condemn others.  Then judge the target by this rule as it adds more weight their side of the scale.  This provides the illusion of an improvement by downgrading others.  This technique is fundamentally selfish and does not demonstrate love.  It does provide quick results for making the person feel better about themselves.  Given our limited understanding this urge all to often goes into this reactive mode rather than proactive long term solutions.

There may be other causes of judging but I feel this accounts for much of it. Regardless I feel that the majority of sins can be viewed as fear based.  So by Love we push out fear and therefore all sin.  Any amount of other sin is a sign of lack of complete.

But we know we are not perfect and can never achieve this.  But by trying and recognizing our shortcomings we are saved by the Grace of God through Christ.


 

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