Knowing this should cause us to guard ourselves against it even more strongly than we do against crime. Sin has titanic and often unrealized effects. If one chooses to ignore God's gracious command and persists in eating things He has not designed as food, sin eats away at his physical and spiritual vitality. Problems resulting from a steady diet of forbidden flesh may not show up for 40 or 50 years or even until the next generation.
At least part of the reason for God's command, however, seems to be that the detrimental effects of eating unclean meats are not immediately apparent. Though God commands us not to eat certain animals, fish, and birds (Leviticus 11 Deuteronomy 14), the person who lives by sight rationalizes that these are merely ceremonial laws. As man counts days, Adam did not die until 960 years later! During that huge expanse of time, a carnal human being living by sight would have great difficulty making the connection between sin-the cause-and death-the effect ( Romans 6:23). "And the L ORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die'" ( Genesis 2:16-17). Because carnal people live by sight, not faith, and the effects of sin are not always immediately discernible, they do not understand the negative fruit that also results from the less obvious ones.Ĭonsider the example of Adam and Eve. Largely, the world only recognizes the most obvious of sins. Even so, God wants us to live within the laws of the land as much as we can ( I Peter 2:13-17). Mankind has established such things as "Blue Laws," the breaking of which are crimes but would not necessarily be sins in God's eyes. Though the overwhelming majority of crimes are also sins, not all of them are. Crime makes us feel apprehensive and suspicious, and most of us take steps to warn others of the dangers.
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Thus, we install locks-maybe several-on our doors and stay away from certain areas and types of people. Crime forces us to seek security so that it does not touch us in a painful way. "Crime" has a far greater effect on us because it is more visible and often has a more immediate impact. To unbelievers, "sin" is almost a joke-they even compose songs containing light references to it. To some people, it has become like "The sky is falling!" of Chicken Little fame.
In this condition, it carries little emotional and intellectual force. The word itself, however, is so commonly used that it has become debased, distorted, and abused. And certainly, sin affects all of us, both when we sin and when others sin. Perhaps a prime candidate for this verbal retirement might be the word " sin." As long as humans exist, we will never be able to retire the concept of sin because it definitely exists! None of us are perfect we all sin on occasion. When they do, maybe they, like people, should be retired from active service. Certain words, like people, get old and tired, having lost their vitality and impact.
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