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William Branham taught that "sin is unbelief"? Is that what the Bible teaches? | |||
=What is sin?= | =What is sin?= | ||
In the New Testament, we learn that sin is: | |||
*Lawlessness - 1 John 3:4 | |||
*Wrongdoing - 1 John 5:17 | |||
*Anything that does not come from faith - Rom 14:23 | |||
*Knowing good and not doing it - James 4:17 | |||
==Different words that are translated into English as "sin"== | |||
There are a number of Greek words that are translated as "sin": | There are a number of Greek words that are translated as "sin": | ||
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Ungodliness (asebeia). Thayer defines this word as “want of reverence towards God, impiety, ungodliness,” and cites Rom. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:16 and Titus 2:12 as examples. Paul refers to the “ungodliness of Jacob” (Rom. 11:26), as Jacob’s sin from which Israel must turn away. “Works of ungodliness” are sinful deeds and Jude uses the term exhaustively. “To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him” (Jude 15). | Ungodliness (asebeia). Thayer defines this word as “want of reverence towards God, impiety, ungodliness,” and cites Rom. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:16 and Titus 2:12 as examples. Paul refers to the “ungodliness of Jacob” (Rom. 11:26), as Jacob’s sin from which Israel must turn away. “Works of ungodliness” are sinful deeds and Jude uses the term exhaustively. “To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him” (Jude 15). | ||
==Unrighteous - adika | ==Unrighteous - adika== | ||
This word is primarily dealing with personal relations between people. It focuses on how one treats a neighbor or a brother. To do our fellow man wrong is to act unrighteously toward him. John says “All unrighteousness is sin” (1 Jn. 5:17). | This word is primarily dealing with personal relations between people. It focuses on how one treats a neighbor or a brother. To do our fellow man wrong is to act unrighteously toward him. John says “All unrighteousness is sin” (1 Jn. 5:17). | ||
==What is iniquity?== | |||
Iniquity in the KJV New Testament is translated from the following Greek Words: | |||
*Anomia - lawlessness or lawless deed | |||
*Adikēma - wrong, crime, misdeed | |||
*Adikia - unrighteousness or injustice | |||
*Ponēria - wickedness or maliciousness | |||
*Paranomia - lawlessness or evildoing | |||
==Debt - opheleima== | ==Debt - opheleima== | ||
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In the New Testament, the subject of how women are to dress is communicated by Paul, “I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety …” (1 Timothy 2:9). Consequently, the only restriction on women’s clothing is this: Whatever women wear, it should be modest, decent, and appropriate.<ref>June Hunt, Biblical Counseling Keys on Spiritual Abuse: Religion at Its Worst (Dallas, TX: Hope For The Heart, 2008), 46.</ref> | In the New Testament, the subject of how women are to dress is communicated by Paul, “I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety …” (1 Timothy 2:9). Consequently, the only restriction on women’s clothing is this: Whatever women wear, it should be modest, decent, and appropriate.<ref>June Hunt, Biblical Counseling Keys on Spiritual Abuse: Religion at Its Worst (Dallas, TX: Hope For The Heart, 2008), 46.</ref> | ||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
''Well, what is sin? See? Drinking whiskey is not, and smoking cigarettes, and committing adultery is not sin. That’s just the attributes of sin. You do that because you’re sinners. That’s what you life bears. Smoke… Just like I said tonight outside, “How much this is nice, the whole thing’s nice.” And you’re a sinner, because you believe not. “He that believeth not is condemned already.” '''You’re a sinner, because you don’t believe.'''<ref>William Branham, 54-0216 - Jairus And Divine Healing, para.13</ref> | |||
''What is sin? '''Sin is “unbelief.”''' Unbelief in (what?) the Word; unbelief in God, which is the Word.<ref>William Branham, 65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ, para. 273</ref> | |||
:''Look in the Bible, you see where, what age we’re living in then, when you see these great things being made manifest. When God promised to do it, He always does it at the end of each age when the church is come to the turning place, and is turned from the Word back to sin and worldliness. '''Worldliness is sin'''. The Bible said, “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God’s not even in you.”<ref>William Branham, 65-1206 - Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 79</ref> | |||
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