Is committing a sin in your heart the same as physically committing it?
(Other than Adultery)
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No, because one is physical and one isn’t. Same severity? Yes.
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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1st John 3:15 -
Scripture only spoke of sexual sin in that regard.
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Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
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That is what Jesus taught sin in the heart is just as bad. If you are angry at ur brother u have committed murder. That is what Jesus was trying to teach us the problem with man is the depraved heart
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That depends on what you mean by in your heart. thoughts are fleeting and come and go. We don’t control what pops into our head. What we control is whether or not we dwell on that sinful thought. if we don’t redirect it and focus it on Jesus and the cross and we decide to dwell on that thought that’s when that thought becomes intention and then intention becomes action. So the difference between having a sinful nature and committing sin is when you allow that thought to turn into an intention by dwelling on it. Once we intend to sin we have already sinned.
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Could be
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Yes!
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Sin is sin
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Absolutely.
Quantum mechanics shows that our thoughts and frame of reference interferes and changes reality.
Our thoughts are much stronger than we think they are ( case and point).
This also can be demonstrated in medicine as a person’s attitude and Outlook has an effect on the recovery. -
Doing it in your heart just means that given the opportunity you would have done it physically.
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Yes
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No such thing as sin!
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Yes
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I found this. Biblically sound
Sin,
Sin is a riddle, a mystery, a reality that eludes definition and comprehension. Perhaps we most often think of sin as wrongdoing or transgression of God’s law. Sin includes a failure to do what is right. But sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people, and ultimately, rebellion against God. Further, the Bible teaches that sin involves a condition in which the heart is corrupted and inclined toward evil. The concept of sin is complex, and the terminology large and varied so that it may be best to look at the reality of sin in the Pentateuch first, then reflect theologically. -
Stuff like this is why I’m so glad I am not a Christian.
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Yes…
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Yes
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YES
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No.
There are degrees of sin. -
Yes. Sermon on the mount.
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Yes it is a mental sin thats why the heart is desperately wicked. The heart is the origin of verbal sin and overt sin.
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Not the same but same count and account and it all counts!
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Sin yes consequences no – unless you are unrepentant
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Yes.
Mark 7:20-23
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” -
Yep
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To improve your thought process and renew your mind and heart..yes
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So your religion can convict you of “thought crimes”….Please read 1984
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Romans 12 v 2 is clear on the issue
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If ypu look at a woman in lust you commit adultery. If you look at a with hatred you commit murder. Yeah it’s the same. The headbones connected to the heart bone and the heart bones connected to the handbone.????
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Word says bring every thought into captivity.
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that is what Jesus said.. what say u ???
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There is a difference between intentional sin and unintentional sin. We are held accountable for what we know, believe, and understand to be true. It is up to God to judge. Sin is any rebellion against God, any stepping out of His will, purpose, plan, and timing.
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As far as God dealing with you, yes. Obviously there are possible effects on others if you carry it out physically. The point is we need His grace every day, every minute of the day.
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Yep. Jesus says if we lust in our heart we committed lust already and if we hate in our hearts we already committed murder.
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It’s the same but there is different levels but it’s still missing the mark for what god wanted
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This is why Paul tells us that the battlefield is the mind. He instructs us in what to think on and to take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ.
You’ve gotta stop thinking about what you’re thinking about and focus on what you should be:
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I think that you committed sin at the root but it is not the same. In fact I think that is a dangerous concept. I would then feel that once I have sinned in my thought I may as well follow through with the act since it carries no greater guilt or penalty.
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It ALWAYS starts in the heart and it’s the same as doing it in God’s eyes.
And we are to DO unto others as we’d have others do unto us. Love others as we love ourselves. So it seems NOT doing it even after you’ve thought it and committed it with your heart can be still keeping the love commandments!
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Yes
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I killed you in my heart did you die? The problem is when our action follows our mind and heart. Law has to do do with action not feeling or thoughts. Law of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is different. Jesus said to love and care.
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To God, it’s the same. But understandably the effect is different.
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Yes and not only that you can even sin by not doing something (sin of omission)
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Yes, Matthew Chapters 5 through 7
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Yes. Jesus makes that clear.
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The way I understand Matthew 5 is that the people were justifying everything as long as they did not technically break the law. Jesus was showing the reason for the law. For example, the purpose for not committing adultery was not to lust after another’s spouse, and the reason for not committing adultery was not to hate one another… Remember the greatest commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself. Lusting after another’s spouse and hating one another means one is breaking the commandment of loving their neighbor as himself/herself.
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Yes,,,Hatred is a sin that we all commit first in our hearts before we send of any negative vibes. And the bible says the he who has hates has already committed murder in there own hearts. So yes, sin begins in the heart before the it does in any action.
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