Thoughts about sin 1

Lets assume a person is constantly lying to his friends.
and repents everytime he lies to his friends.

He finds out that he lies to his friends in order to
have a positive image.

In essence, his obsession to be someone he is not
is based on his fundamental desire to get acknowledged
by others. His existence is based on how others view him.

This tells a lot about the nature of sin.

Sin leads to sinful actions.
sinful actions to sinful actions in repetition.
So sin is addiction.
and it comes back to

1. worshipping something else then God
2. Me - being the center of my personal fulfilment
3. Other people becoming idols and the standard of measurement.

Doctrine of election

Tim Keller said something interesting about the doctrine of election.

1.

When there is only free will, and not everyone chooses to believe in christ, only a part will be saved. Now, God who is all knowing prior to their birth, whether they will be saved or not, lets this happen.

The doctrine of election says: God chooses whose eyes he opens and whose not.
In the end, he does this only for a part.
In the end what you have is: it comes back to the same result.


Both scenarios don't answer the big question: why does God let this happen ?

2.
In retrospect, people who have been saved describe this conversion experience by
something where they feel they have been moved and converted by something. Which is the Holy Ghost.

Meine Jahreslosung 2011

Und er ist wie ein Baum, gepflanzt an Wasserbächen, der seine Frucht bringt zu seiner Zeit, und dessen Blatt nicht verwelkt; und alles, was er tut, gelingt.

Psalm 1,3


That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.