Day 1 | Who Invented Sin? Who Created the Rules | What the Bible Really Says

What if some of what you were told was a sin... isn't really sin? God created everything, which means He created sin, right? Nope! God created everything good. Sin is not something He made; it is what happened when creation turned away from what He intended.

Family, sin is a departure, not a creation.

Father, we come before You today with grateful hearts for the many blessings You have bestowed upon us. We bring our all at the altar today Lord Jesus. We come to You with honest hearts, asking that You strip away every doctrine of man that has disguised itself as Your voice. Give us this day our daily bread, physically and spiritually. Grant us the courage to read what the Bible actually says, not what we have been told. Where tradition has replaced truth, let truth win today. Open our eyes, open our minds, and meet us in this study. In Jesus' name, Amen.

This week's session was born out of a discussion I have been having with a silent listener. I did say to give me suggestions about what you want to discuss. I forgot to say, don’t ask the hard questions. But is there anything too hard for God? I am not God, but I come; we come in His Name. Amen?!

So this Brother asked who told us that these things we call sin are indeed sin. He spoke about Jesus turning water into wine and the folks getting drunk. He asked if God made sin, why is sin a bad thing. The Brother quoted scripture – Isaiah 45:7 KJV: ‘I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’

Questions that stopped me in my tracks. The kind of questions most people are afraid to ask out loud. But the Bible has answers. Amen?! The topic for this week is Who Made the Rules? What the Bible Really Says.

Family, God Himself is speaking in Isaiah 45:7. And if you are reading that for the first time, or even the tenth time, it is reasonable to ask: wait, did God just say He created evil? Did God create sin? The answer is no. So what is God is actually saying here?

The Hebrew word used for evil in Isaiah 45:7 is 'ra', and it does not only mean moral evil. It also means calamity, disaster, and adversity. God is not confessing to being the author of sin. He is declaring His sovereignty, that nothing in this universe, not even darkness, not even disaster, falls outside of His authority and control. He is saying I am God over all of it.

Aha. Now that is a very different statement.

Genesis 1:31 confirms this. After God created everything, He looked at it and called it very good. Not good and evil. Not good and sin. Very good. Sin was not part of what God made. Sin entered through choice, through the will of a creature turning away from what God intended.

Romans 5:13 helps us understand how sin even became a formal category. 'For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed (meaning held against us) when there is no law.'

Family, sin is something that could be formally charged, counted, and held on record, something that needed a law to exist first. You cannot be found guilty of breaking a rule that was never written. Romans 4:15 confirms it: ‘where no law is, there is no transgression’.

So God did not create sin. God created freedom. And freedom, by its very nature, carries the possibility of choice, including the wrong one. That is not God setting us up. That is God honouring us enough to let us choose.

The question we are sitting with this week is this: between what God actually said and what we have been told, do we know the difference? Because some of the guilt we carry comes from God's Word. And some of it was placed there by someone who needed us to stay small.

This series is about learning to tell the difference.

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