Scriptural Confirmations (Whitehead) n. 101

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101. SIN; ALSO ORIGINAL SIN.

One. The Apostles commanded that they should abstain from idol sacrifices, blood, a thing strangled, and whoredom (Acts 15:20-29). By these four things are signified the falsities of evil and things falsified. Similarly in 21:25. Many crimes and sins are enumerated of which they who do not know God, and do not believe in Him, are full (Rom. 1:28-32). There is none just, not even one. There is none that is intelligent; none that seeketh God. They have all turned aside, at the same time they have become useless; there is none that doeth good, not even one (Rom. 3:10-12 seq.). They are called the dead who are in sins (Rom. 5:17; 6:2, 10-13; 7:10). Sins are enumerated (1 Cor. 6:9, 10). The works of the flesh are enumerated (Gal. 5:19-21; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10). The dead in sins (Eph. 2:1, 5). Awake, arise from the dead (Eph. 5:14; Col. 2:13). Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God (Col. 3:3). That they were to put off all things unclean, and the old man, and put on the new (Col. 3:5-10, 12). Avarice is the root of all evils (1 Tim. 6:9, 10). They profess to know God, but deny Him by works (Titus 1:16). Repentance from dead works (Heb. 6:1; 9:14). To judge the living and the dead (1 Peter 4:5, 6). Watch: because the devil as a roaring lion goeth about (1 Peter 5:8). That he is dead; and that the things about to die should be strengthened (Rev. 3:1, 2). The dead are judged (Rev. 20:12, 13). Evils proceeding out of man, enumerated by the Lord (Mark 7:21, 22).


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