On another blog the question of "what is the opposite of sin" was raised. I couldn't help but think of "Be angry but sin not." That would really show what the opposite of sin would be, when you are angry but wouldn't sin How hard is that?
I am reading a book by Gary Chapman, "The Other Side of Love", which is about anger, how to control it and why we have it. God gets angry, Jesus got angry and they did not sin/ From the beginning we had the capacity for anger, but we perverted it's purpose after the fall.
Anger was intended to spur us to action to right a wrong. This would work if we were truly theotitical instead of egotistical, again the work of man's sinful depravity.
So as Followers of Christ we should do lilke him, get angry for the rigth reasons, but don't sin.
*posted by Lyle @4:58 PM, Saturday, May 22, 2004
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