Christian
Antiochene understanding of “sin”.
Christians
talk about “sin”, what is sin? True Christians understand sin to be that which
is contrary to God or against God. We (The Ancient Antiochene Church of God)
understand that God is LOVE. God defines true love for us in His word. We serve
a God of morality, honesty, justice, compassion, mercy, and TRUTH.
So “truth” is also defined properly by God and not by fallen
man. God is our ultimate parent (the Creator). Just as small human children do
not always understand why their parents tell them to obey certain commands,
adult humans do not like God telling them what to do either. This is just how
fallen human nature reacts to Divine Revelation as a whole.
If there were no sin there would be no sickness, death,
lying, cheating, adultery, murder, etc. All things that most understand to be
“evil” or wrong would not exist if there was no such thing as “sin”. For the
“begotten” child of God (the True Christian) there is really no such thing as
sin – the Christian has become saved. What “Good News” this is for God’s true
children. Though we (Christians) still have to live in this Fallen Matrix
amongst sin and sinners, we have been “set free” from the fallen matrix.
This does not mean that Christians do not still struggle
with their old nature, because they do. What has become different for the
Christian is the fact that she or he has now gained a “new nature”, a sinless
nature through Jesus Christ our Lord. True Christians are honest about their
old sinful nature and have constant forgiveness and strength to become a better
person through God’s unconditional love.
God is “GOOD”, God is “LOVE”, God is without “SIN”. So,
God’s mind has no sin, nothing bad, no evil. God is in everything but not
everything is in God. Apostle Paul says that through Jesus Christ we have the
presence of God in us (us Christians) and Paul calls this “a mystery”. How can
God dwell in a fallen human being? He does it by His supernatural love, through
the Holy Spirit. Those who are not “saved” (not Christian) do not have the presence
of God dwelling in them. One must become “born from above” in order to become a
true child of God.
We must understand that for the Christian, their spirit has
merged with the Divine - Christians actually become partakers of the Divine
Nature – this is a mystery.
When the Holy Spirit comes to live inside the Christian, God begins to help the person adjust proper thought patterns, sinless thought
patterns. This is the power of God working within His children whom He loves
very much. Through the person of Jesus Christ, the sin question was answered.
Jesus becomes the perfect sacrifice, paying the penalty for sin, for the
begotten child of God. Yes, evil has a cost – it has a consequence. Not all
humans want consequences for their choices, they believe that they should be
able to do anything they wish.
God has demonstrated that He is a God of justice, there are
penalties for bad choices. Nothing in creation could have paid the price for
the evil of sin. Sin is too powerful for humans to fix or conquer. It took God
Himself to intervene on our behalf to fix this problem. This is why the person
of Jesus Christ is so important for the true Christian. Only through Jesus
Christ may we be restored into proper relationship with our Parent Creator.
Dear fellow Christians, the world has need of you. We must
demonstrate our faith through our lives and share it with others. We urge you to
listen to Presbyter King’s talks and read all of our articles. Use your Bible
every day and study with us here every day. Welcome all Christians. We serve the
only true God and God is perfect love.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
AACG (January 30th 2026)
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