Is sin necessary for excitement and spice?

The following was from one social group interaction. I have deleted the writer's name because I had no permission to write it. I have responded to it

To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:25 AM
Subject: [PK] ...Is sin necessary for excitement and spice?

If my life is taking a boring bent, how much more God's? Just last week, he was busy doing two things: Either forgiving my sins or trying to prevent me from committing any-chasing me like a dog if you please. I on the other hand was busy doing two things: Running from a temptation, (unsuccessfully and happily so), and also covering my tracks lest Mrs Owesome...you get the drift. Both of us were busy and excited.

Be that as it may, though my ATM card is back and I was obviously not caught, the big concern is how to bring the excitement back to my life. I am however starting to wonder that sin is necessary to both God and man. May I be forgiven for such blasphemous thoughts.

My words are finished.

Mr. Owesome,
My response

I would like to say that every often we try to put God in our cup tea and try to make Him fit our whims. What our good God has revealed to us through His word and through Jesus Christ is sufficient for us to understand what sin is. I do not want to play teacher here but as your brother, I would like to say that we have three categories of people; Chritians, Norminal Christians and non-believers.- The first group are regenerated sinners who depend on the Holy spirit in all the areas of life, and  therefore when they sin, they are made aware of the sin by the Holy Spirit who indwells them and when they see the sin, they confess and repent. They never make excuses, they do as David did in Psalm 51. These Chritians are discribed in the following scripture, Roman 8

⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

The second group I call norminal Chritians, are those who claim to be Christians but do not keep in step with the Holy Spirit. They know they are saved but they do not wholy rely on the Holy Spirit. Some become indolent and compacent to the extent that they cannot differentiate between right and wrong. These are the ones Paul describes as those whose consciences are seared as with hot iron. Their consciences can not heed the prompting of the Holy Spirit who indwells them and they continously rebel. These are described in this scripture Galatians 5

¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,^[c] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders,^[d] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

All these sins listed above are so temptious that we all often times find ourselves somtimes swimming in them. The fist letter of John 1says

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

The third group is the Non-believers who do not believe in Jesus or those who are not born again. These are those who lead lives guided only by the natural law, customary law and the laws of the land in which they live. If there was no such thing as law, they as well would indulge in all eveil. This group includes those who call themselves atheists etc. They are God haters and they are the ones the Bible says that their names are no written in the book of Life. Revelation 20

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,^[c] and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.^{[d] 15} And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Now my brother, do not just talk of God as a thing or a prefect who writes the names of noise makers in class- GOD IS GOD. The right question I now ask you, is where do you belong? Your behaviour and life is determined by the group you belong to.

Religion was not one of the purposes of Jesus coming on earth.

Dear Pastor Birai,

With due respect I beg to differ with you on this. I have time and again requested you respond to my posting on this topic you have always ignored. Anyway that is not why I am responding to this present post. I would like to say that when you insinuate that those who gather for worship on Sunday are doing it wrongly, you are actually judging yet we who gather on this day know very well that it is not a matter of religion for Religion was not one of the purposes of Jesus coming on earth.

Religion had failed to bring  salvation to mankind. Had the Sabbath been efficacious, Jesus would not have come to die on the cross. Christianity did not by anyway replace Judaism. Christianity is not established on the law but on the work at Calvary. There is a very big difference between the gospel preached by the twelve and that one preached by Paul. The message of Grace does not conform to what you are saying here. The Seventh Day Adventists find meaning in keeping one day holy- the day called Saturday as a Christian I respect that and can never say that they are wrong or legalistic as others say. I find meaning in keeping all the days holy because of what I understand salvation to mean. Now if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come. 

Pastor here below is what God required the Israelite to do on the Sabbath, not just to assemble and sing hymns, but also to do the following-

 ⁹ “‘On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah^[c] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Pastor I doubt whether this is what happens in our S.D.A churches. "If you buy a cow, you take even its dung" I do not mean that the sabbath practices are dung but I am saying that when you take something you take it as a package not just what is suitable to you. I think why those of us Christians who worship on Sunday do so is because of the following verses I cut and pasted here and we keep all days Holy because all days are the sabbath- the rest-

1. Numbers 28:26
   [ The Festival of Weeks ] “‘On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
   Numbers 28:25-27 (in Context) Numbers 28 (Whole Chapter)
2. Matthew 28:1
   [ Jesus Has Risen ] After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
   Matthew 28:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 28 (Whole Chapter)
3. Mark 16:2
   Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb
   Mark 16:1-3 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)
4. Mark 16:9
   [The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9–20.] When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
   Mark 16:8-10 (in Context) Mark 16 (Whole Chapter)
5. Luke 24:1
   [ Jesus Has Risen ] On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
   Luke 24:1-3 (in Context) Luke 24 (Whole Chapter)
6. John 20:1
   [ The Empty Tomb ] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
   John 20:1-3 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)
7. John 20:19
   [ Jesus Appears to His Disciples ] On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
   John 20:18-20 (in Context) John 20 (Whole Chapter)
8. Acts 20:7
   [ Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas ] On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
   Acts 20:6-8 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter)
9. 1 Corinthians 16:2
   On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
   1 Corinthians 16:1-3 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 16 (Whole Chapter)

It should be noted that all the disciples and the frist believers did not want to rival the existing established religion that is why they gathered on the first day to break bread and the practice is still there today. Not replacing the Sabbath because Chritianity is not a religion it can not replace a religion. We belong to the body of Jesus Christ.

May God bless you.

Paul