{"id":2944,"date":"2017-04-18T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/discussion-what-is-sin\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T00:29:39","slug":"discussion-what-is-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/discussion-what-is-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion: What is sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What How many of you have grown up going to church regularly?<\/li>\n<li>What How many of you have heard the word &#8216;sin&#8217; before?<\/li>\n<li>What is a sin? (Anything that separates us from God)<\/li>\n<li>Is it possible for two people to do the same thing, and for it to be a sin for one person and not the other?<\/li>\n<li>Why or why not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>[23] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. [25] God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood&#8212;to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished&#8212;Romans 3:23-25 NIV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever heard church people talk all churchy? Can anybody explain those verses in a way that everyone can understand?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is perfect, and only perfection can enter his presence.<\/li>\n<li>We do things wrong, we are not perfect. That keeps us separated from God. Sin.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus was perfect, and could enter God&#8217;s presence. He was killed, even though he did nothing wrong.<\/li>\n<li>He goes to God on our behalf.<\/li>\n<li>His death covers our sin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can come to God through Jesus.Sin is a big deal. It keeps us from someone who knows how to love perfectly. But it doesn&#8217;t keep Him from loving us anyway. He made a way for us to come to him. 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