romans 7:7
Jun. 13th, 2022 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prismaticbleedShall we say, then, that the Law itself is sinful? Of course not! But it was the Law that made me know what sin is. If the Law had not said, “Do not desire what belongs to someone else,” I would not have known such a desire. (Romans 7:7 GNB)
It's like when, as a child, you inevitably ask "what's adultery?" The answer, ironically, in outlining the nature of the sin, plants the very seed of it into our kinds. It's the classic "don't think about elephants" conundrum. God set up the Law like this, negatively, ON PURPOSE, to show us that no man is pure or innocent just because he's never been tempted. The instant any man becomes aware of sin, that awareness has stained his fingers for good. Such is the nature of the forbidden Fruit; such is what God wants us to be humbly and keenly conscious of.
It's like when, as a child, you inevitably ask "what's adultery?" The answer, ironically, in outlining the nature of the sin, plants the very seed of it into our kinds. It's the classic "don't think about elephants" conundrum. God set up the Law like this, negatively, ON PURPOSE, to show us that no man is pure or innocent just because he's never been tempted. The instant any man becomes aware of sin, that awareness has stained his fingers for good. Such is the nature of the forbidden Fruit; such is what God wants us to be humbly and keenly conscious of.
