Unpopular words - sinner, law breaker and transgressor
These are not the most en vogue labels today. Even so, the word “ sin ,” “transgression,” or “iniquity” occurs 1148 times in the NASB translation of the Bible in 906 verses. This is more, for example than the word “love” (528 times), “lovingkindness” (138 times), and “grace” (133 times). What does this have to do with me? Every one of us is individually accountable to the God of the Bible. We are morally responsible to our Creator. It is not your religious preference that tells you that, but your humanity. You are a creature, but you are supra-all-creatures. You have a hard-wired conscience. In your soul is an effortlessly-existing moral smoke alarm. It may have been damaged. But it’s there. The beeping may have not sounded much since you jacked the cookie jar. But it has sounded. We cower. You have a hard-wired knowledge. Man knows that there is a Creator. Archaeologists, for example, constantly declare the existence of him. Tools in hand, thousands of miles awa...