| Re: They that are Without the Law [message #325 is a reply to message #320] |
Mon, 02 May 2011 21:10   |
Seeker
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Registered: June 2010
Location: Las Vegas
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Quote:A3. Sin is defined as knowingly acting against the will of God.
I agree, but would make the following change:
Sin is defined as knowingly and willingly acting against the will of God.
This is a very important distinction because without will we have no agency and sin requires agency. People forced to do evil against their will are not "agents unto themselves" and have committed no sin.
Transgression is when we break the law without knowledge or will and therefore have not sinned against the law, only transgressed.
The knowledge required to sin is not just belief or cause to believe, as we have when someone tells us from the pulpit or we read it in the scriptures or hear the prophet tell us, it means real personal "knowledge". The prophet Alma taught this to the poor people on the hill Onidah:
Quote:"And now, how much more cursed is he that knoweth the will of God and doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or only hath cause to believe, and falleth into transgression?" - Alma 32:19
~ Seeker
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