InSlaveryToChrist
Puritan Board Junior
How would you prove from the Bible that we have secret sins in contrast to the idea that all our sinning is conscious?
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What do you mean by "secret sins?"
What do you mean by "secret sins?"
I'm confused too, and would find a definition helpful. Thanks.
Are you asking if it is possible to commit sins of omission?
The conscience can be seared though, and dulled to the detection of sin.
Trying to follow your thread here: I think you are asking if we commit sins that we are not conscious of? And if we are not conscious of them, are we therefore "blind" to them and subsequently not held accountable for them via John 9:41?
You might wish to look at Leviticus 5:17ff before proceeding too far.
In this verse the apostle taketh off the prejudice and cavil whereby his admonition might be slighted and evaded. They might reply, We have no need to be taught such a plain lesson; we know that life is short, and that God's providence governeth all things. Do you, saith the apostle, know all this? then you are the more obliged to subject your desires to his will and pleasure, which he proveth by this general rule.
...their being sensible of misery, were an evidence that they lay near mercy... "If ye were blind," (in your own esteem, and coming to me with it) "ye should have no sin," to wit, in comparison of your guilt now, and I would really pardon and heal you, and it should not "remain," as is after declared. Men's conceit of their own condition as good enough is a sin against the very remedy....
I'm curious as to what changed with regard to your view of God's word.