The one thing that I have learned for all of my years of study is the ingenuity of man. Give em a problem and they will find a way out of it somehow. Just so – give em a law to keep and they will find a way around it. Remember the Eruv?

Here it is again if you missed it.

One of the Ten commandments was –

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Exodus 20. 8 –10

Over the years since the time of Moses (nobody seems to know exactly when) this had been modified in a few strange ways. It had been modified to mean that doing work even meant doing something as simple as carrying a handkerchief or picking up your crying child. The impracticalities concerning this made it nigh on impossible to keep, I mean imagine a nursing mother not being able to pick up her crying child, so the codicil was added that you could do such things within your own house or within the perimeter of your own land, but not beyond the perimeter of your own land.

At the time of Jesus there was a bit of a disagreement going on between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, because the Pharisees had come up with the idea that the owners of a block of houses or parcels of land could sign a legal document which was an agreement to turn all of their properties into a sort of an estate, which offered everybody who had signed it, mutual ownership just for the Sabbath day. This meant that everybody’s property on the sabbath was mutually owned and because it was mutually owned and belonged to everybody, any of them could move about and carry things up and down the streets without breaking the Sabbath law. This was called an Eruv. Today whole areas of Jewish quarters in city centres such as Golders Green in London are in an Eruv.

In Jesus’ day the Saducees reckoned that this was cheating and objected.

See what I mean about the ingenuity of man. Give em a law to keep and they will find a way around it or out of it. Moses would turn in his grave if he could see em now, or maybe he wouldn’t, maybe he would smile wryly at their ingenuity.

Now we move into Christianity and on to the teaching of sinless perfection.

Since the year dot , throughout the whole epoch of Judaism they had numerous laws to keep, none more well known than The Ten Commandments. And give them their due I believe that many Jews persevered to do their best to keep them.

When they failed it was a sin. Because that is what sin is – the breaking of the law.

To understand what I am saying here - look at it this way.

Every day you leave your house, walk down the street and cross over the road to get to the other side. You have done the same thing for the last 50 years.

Are you a criminal? Have you broken any law? No.

Why not?

Because there is no law that says you can’t walk down your street and cross over the road to get to the other side.

But tomorrow if a law is passed which says that it is a criminal offence to walk across the road to get to the other side each time that you do it in the future it will be a criminal offence.

What has happened? What has changed? A law has come into force. That is what has changed. A law has come into force that makes what you have been doing quite okay for 50 years a criminal offence from now on.

There are numerous instances of this.

It is now a criminal offence to smoke in a public building because a law has come into force in the UK in 2007 that says it is a crime to smoke in a public building. It wasn’t a crime when smokers smoked in public buildings for the last 100 years but now it is – a law has come into force!

When I was a child there were no parking restrictions on the roads, no yellow lines and everybody parked anywhere they wished. Then a law came into force so you were committing a crime if you parked on a double yellow line. So exactly the same action that people had done for a hundred years suddenly changed from being okay, to being a crime because a law had come into force.

So in both instances of smoking in public buildings and parking on double yellow lines, overnight, once the law had been passed anybody who did not follow the law was criminalised. If the law had not been set up or introduced then no crime would be or could be committed.

So we see a principle - introducing a law makes a criminal of all who break it.

Now when you break the law of God it is not called a crime. It is called a sin. And exactly the same principle applies. If there was no law of God then neither could there be such a thing as sin, because sin is the breaking of the law – nothing more and nothing less.

People go into all sorts of theories and explanations of what sin is and what it is all about, but the bottom line is – no law in place = no sin. Sin is the transgression of the law.

Now Paul understood this fact as clear as day and he speaks of it by saying -

“I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.” Romans 7:7 –8

Do you see it? “I had not known sin, but by the law” Sin is the breaking of the law of God. That is what sin is. Sin is not some strange, inexplicable thing that we cannot define. Sin is the breaking of the law. The law says “Do this”, and if you don’t “Do it” you are committing a sin. The law says “Don’t do this” and if you do it you are committing a sin.

Then along came Jesus who didn’t say – “don’t bother about the law”, quite the opposite – he often expounded on the law.

“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Mathew 22. 35 –40

Now we can look at a list of sins and this list is by no means all of it, but it gives you an idea what we are talking about.

“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Romans 1:29 – 31

And as I say – this is by no means the end of it because as well at looking at the bad things that the law says we should not do, we can also look at a few of the good things that it says we should do –

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth. “1 Corinthians 13. 4 -8

And so on, but I think you get the picture.

Now if you do the bad things in the first list and don’t do the good things in the second list then you are breaking the law of god and as such are committing a sin. Because that’s what sin is – the breaking the law of God.

This factor has driven people totally nuts, and as I have said in the introduction concerning who I am – trying to keep the law and render myself sinless drove me to the point of suicide in my early years because no matter how hard you try – believe me it can’t be done.

Throughout the ages of Christianity (and I am quite sure during the age of pre-Christianity throughout the age of Judaism) many godly men have endeavoured to cease from sin and failed. It is too great a thing for man to accomplish. Every word, every thought and every deed has to be examined by the criteria – is it a sin if I think, do or say this thing or is it a sin if I don’t think, do or say this thing. It is a sheer and utter nightmare from hell to try and accomplish sinlessness and it is impossible to accomplish it. Trust me on this, and just be grateful that I tried it instead of you.

And the apostle Paul obviously tried it as well and recounted his own experience for us –

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.” Romans 7. 18 -19

So what did Paul do?

He cheated. Just like the Sadducees earlier claimed that the Pharisees were cheating with their Eruv, Paul found a way out of his dilemma. I say he cheated because he had no right to say what he continued to say.

Christians all fall back in horror – what? You claim that this man that God chose. who was called specifically by God to this work was cheating. Who are you too say such a thing?

Who am I?

I am the one who says he was cheating, that’s who I am. And in the next section I will show you a few other inconsistencies about this man as well, but lets get this one out of the way first of all

I repeat - he cheated, and every single one of those Christians today who follow his lead and take what he said at face value are cheating as well. I am here talking about those who today state quite openly that they no longer sin. You see there are people out there in the crazy world of Christianity who are now claiming that they no longer sin. They have made it, they have achieved the desired goal. They are sinless. And they are quoting Paul to back up their claim. They are cheating just like he cheated.

So how did Paul cheat?

“For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.   If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Romans 7. 14 – 20.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear – Read it and weep Moses. And hey – you Sadducees, if you thought that those Pharisees were cheating with their eruv then this ex-Pharisee is really taking the piss.

Do you see it? What a gem! What an absolute cracker! Just look at it.

“For we know that the law is spiritual”

Firstly he states that the law is spiritual, so keeping the commandments, doing good, loving the Lord your God with all your heart soul and mind, loving your neighbour as yourself and all the good things that we are told to do are “spiritual” things

“but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”

Then he recognises that he can’t do the good things that the law commands. Why – because of his carnal side.

“If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.”

So, if I don’t want to do bad things and really want to do good things I must agree that the law that tells me to do the good things is of itself - good.

And here is the final blow –

“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”

Oh my, oh my. So now when I do the things that I don’t want to do, all of that sin, all of that nastiness, all of that greed, avarice, gluttony, fornication, adultery, hating, despising, murdering, stealing etc – it is not me that is doing it at all. It is sin that dwelleth in me

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”

And then repeat the final blow a second time to make sure it is driven home.

“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”

And I repeat -

Oh my, oh my, oh dear, oh dear. So now when I do the things that I don’t want to do, all of that sin, all of that nastiness, all of that greed, avarice, gluttony, fornication, adultery, hating, despising, murdering, stealing etc – it is not me that is doing it at all. It is sin that dwelleth in me.

“Hey fella, didn’t I just see you smack your neighbour in the mouth? That wasn’t very nice was it – I thought you were supposed to “love thy neighbour”

“No, you are mistaken.”

“No I’m not, I just saw you do it. I was just standing here and I distinctly just saw you smack them in the mouth.”

“No, I tell you – you are mistaken. That wasn’t me smacking them in the mouth that was sin that dwelleth within me”

LOL

“Hey you lot over there that are beating the crap out of that old lady and nicking her handbag, what the hell are you doing?”

“Don’t worry about it mate, its not us, we aren’t doing it – it’s just sin that dwells within us.”

So there you have it, and as we read on the

“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Romans 7:21 –25

And then in the next chapter

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Rom.8:1

Get the hell out of here you numbnuts. It’s a cop out.

And now the insanity of the modern teaching gets even better because all of those people who claim that it is entirely possible for a man to achieve sinlessness in this life can just refer to Paul.

In times past, after trying it for a while they realised that they were not getting any better. So they tried harder, they prayed harder, they whipped themselves harder. They might have tried moving out of society where they could contemplate more, pray more, study more and whip themselves even more. They might have taken a vow of silence so that they at least stopped sinning by speech for he who doesn’t speak at all cannot sin by speech. They might have become a monk or a nun thinking that the solitude of a cell would help, and on and on it went seeking the ultimate goal – sinless perfection.

Today after trying it for a while they realise that they are not getting any better so they try harder, pray harder, whip themselves harder etc just as before, and on and on it goes as they seek their ultimate goal – sinless perfection.

But they also know that no matter how hard they try they can’t get anywhere near the ideal goal that they are trying to attain to, because one thing that they do discover is they are still committing sin every hour of every day of there lives unless are asleep.

So what do they do? Simple – they do exactly the same as Paul did – they cheat. They come up with a nice little explanation of how they can claim to be not responsible for their sin.

They state that all men are made up of two components – the flesh and the spirit and that these two components within man mean that they can view themselves as if we were two separate beings within the same man - a carnal man and a spiritual man.

Now, they say the carnal man, the man of the flesh is the one that is doing all of the sin. The spiritual man or the spiritual part within them wants to do good and keep the law etc but it discovers that it can’t succeed because the carnal man keeps on sinning.

So, hey ho, don’t worry about it. From now on, as long as you recognise that you don’t want to sin and do want to do good you can claim that every sin that you do commit is not really your fault and it is not actually you that is doing it. It is sin that dwells within you.

You don’t want to do it but the carnal man within you keeps on dragging you down so to speak – so from now on whenever you sin you simply acknowledge that you don’t want to sin so therefore it isn’t the spiritual man that is doing it – it is the carnal man. And as such it is no longer you that is doing it – it is the carnal man within you. It is not you, it is sin that swells within you.

Aint it a cracker?

They are therefore not responsible for any sin that they commit anymore. They can’t stop the carnal man from sinning, because the carnal man, the man of the flesh is naturally sinful. But as long as they don’t want to do it – it is enough, and hey ho they can claim to have achieved sinlessness because the spiritual man within them does want to do good things.

It isn’t there fault that the man of the flesh, the carnal man wants to do bad things. And as long as they are actually physically alive (in this body of flesh), every sin that they commit, every nastiness that they do, every time they fail to love their neighbour as themselves etc, everything they can just write it off and say - yes, I don’t want to be like that and that isn’t me that is actually doing it – it is sin that dwells in my body of flesh and that isn’t my fault, So as long as I want to do good, and accede that I want to do good I can actually do anything and just blame it on my carnal body of flesh.

Well, hello hypocrisy.

So how do we nail them to the floor and stop them from making these totally absurd schizophrenic statements?

We point out that Paul was cheating and he was wrong. Because the point is – Paul had no right to say what he said in the first place. A man may well be a two part creature – flesh and spirit. But both parts are components of the same man and as such the man is responsible for both of those components.

You can’t steal something and then claim that it wasn’t you who stole it – it was your hand and it did it against your will. You can’t lose your temper and beat your wife to a pulp and then claim that it wasn’t you, it was your fists that did the thumping against your will because your carnal man is sinful and it wasn’t you who did it - it was sin that dwells within you. What planet are you off?

But again – as this site is not here to simply grind into the dust the poor in spirit and it is supposed to be an aid them and help them to understand a few of the problems that Christianity has given them there is a question to be answered. And the question is – what about wilful sin?

From my reading of those who are seeking and have the desire to be sinless in the first place it would seem that the desire is brought about through fear – and the fear is founded on certain passages in the Bible like the one in Hebrews –

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,” Hebrews 10: 26

If it weren’t for these sort of passages the poor devils probably wouldn’t be seeking to be sinless in the first place. So the question is - in a Biblical context how are such passages to be answered and understood?

Well the first thing that we must really get our heads around is - what sin is.

As far as the Bible is concerned –

“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4

You can debate about it until you are blue in the face, you can go into the depths and heights of discussion, reasoning, looking at all of the do’s and don’ts and at the end of it all the bottom line is exactly this – sin is the transgression of the law. Sin is nothing other than this. It is no more than this and it is no less than this.

Remember what Paul said before he began to talk about the carnal and spiritual side? Because he did at least understand what sin was when he said -

“I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.” Romans 7:7 –8

Do you see it? “I had not known sin, but by the law"

and

“Without the law sin was dead”

Indeed – without law sin is dead.

Sin is the breaking of the law of God. That is what sin is. Sin is not some strange, inexplicable thing that we cannot define. Sin is the breaking of the law. The law says “Do this”, and if you don’t “Do it” you are committing a sin. The law says “Don’t do this” and if you do it you are committing a sin.

Remember –

Every day you leave your house, walk down the street and cross over the road to get to the other side. You have done the same thing for the last 50 years.

Are you a criminal? Have you broken any law? No.

Why not?

Because there is no law that says you can’t walk down your street and cross over the road to get to the other side.

But tomorrow if a law is passed which says that it is a criminal offence to walk across the road to get to the other side each time that you do it in the future it will be a criminal offence.

What has happened? What has changed? A law has come into force. That is what has changed. A law has come into force that makes what you have been doing quite okay for 50 years a criminal offence from now on.

The principle is and always has been – no law in force = no sin. Sin cannot exist without law because sin is the breaking of the law.

So firstly it must be asked – who put you under the law?

This is a very valid question indeed and one that you should not just glide by and ignore. I repeat it – who put you under the law?

You can’t say that Moses did because Moses had nothing to do with you. Moses was the leader of Israel, he was the teacher of Judaism. And we have already looked at Moses and a few of his totally insane laws in section 3 and we have ascertained that the god that he claimed the instructions came from was an old Canaanite bull deity.

So again I ask – who put you under the law?

Jesus?

Not at all! Don't blame it on Jesus. When Jesus came along he wasn’t in the least bit interested in the Gentiles, in fact when he sent his disciples out he told them in no uncertain terms, commanding them –

“Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mathew 10. 5 – 7

You see – the Gentiles weren’t under the law in the first place so there was no need to go and preach deliverance to them. His whole ministry and the story of his payment for sin was only of interest to those who were under the law and needed sin paying for, because that is what sin is - the breaking of the law. But the gentiles who were not under the law didn’t have a problem. They weren’t guilty of breaking the law because the law hadn’t been set up over them by Moses in the first place.

So if you are not a Jew what the blazes are you doing under the law? The only thing that the law can do is condemn you for breaking it!

But the law is just and good – it says so in the Bible. Yes that’s the problem – the law may be just and good, but if you break it then you aren’t just and good, You are just the opposite – you are unjust and bad – a sinner!

But what the hell are you doing trying to keep the law anyway? You should be out sunbathing, working in your garden, enjoying a coffee in town, or doing any number of things and enjoying life. Sin should not even be an issue for you because sin is nothing more than the breaking of the law and you were never meant to be under the law in the first place – it wasn’t given to you, it was given by Moses to Israel!

This is why Jesus was born a Jew and not a Gentile. He came to save “his people” – the Jews from their sins, to get them from under the bondage and penalty of law. There was no need for him to go and save the Gentiles because they weren’t under the flaming law in the first place.

And the book that you are reading and quoting from concerning wilful sin –

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,” Hebrews 10: 26

It wasn’t written to you. It was written to the flaming Hebrews.

So you go up and down your street every morning and gather all the gas bills, power bills, every single bill that all of your neighbours receive that aren’t addressed to you and pay them do you? I wish I had somebody like you living in our street – you could pay a few of mine while you were at it.

This isn’t a joke. It is a serious question. Who put you under the Jewish Law?

The answer is – Christianity did. The worst bunch of manipulating, money grabbing, power hungry, lying, thieving, cheating hypocrites that you could come across – following on in the same old tradition of what Moses did to Israel – binding the people with a burden so heavy to be born that it breaks them in two. They put you under the law. They were the ones who told you how the Bible was a good book, full of truth, the word of God, etc. And they lied to you. It is not the "word of God" it is a collection of writings of man. You don't learn about God from a book. You learn about God by praying, communing with, contemplating, asking and talking to Him.

.You have no right to be where you are - under the law, so get out from under it.

There is no such thing as a sin which is not – a breaking of the law because that is what sin is – the breaking of the law. So get out from under the law because it was never given to you in the first place and it was never intended that you should try and keep it. Were you circumcised on the eighth day according to law of Moses? If not then you weren’t and aren’t bound by their covenant or the covenant of their law.

Get out from under the law! The only way that you can commit wilful sin is if you wilfully set up the law over yourself.

According to the Bible Jesus came to deliver His people from their sins. He came to break the bondage of the law. The end of the law is death and He came and died. He did not negate the law. He fulfilled it. The law said "Do this or Die" and that is what he did - He died.

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