ARE YOU THE STANDARD?

Adelola Edema

 

Many times, when someone asks if doing anything is a sin (wearing trousers or jewelry (of any kind), drinking alcohol, makeup, braiding or fixing hair extensions, going to church on Sundays, listening to secular music, even premarital sex), I've noticed that arguments are usually based on whether we do it or not. So someone asks if wearing trousers is sin, and people respond that they wear trousers, so it's not a sin. Or wine is not a sin because they drink.

 

My question is; are you the standard? When did the Bible call something a sin because it's not the norm?

 

And then some people say it's a sin because they don't do it. Or it's the prostitutes in there neighborhood that do such.

 

Please when did God make you the standard for judging right or wrong?

 

Sincerely, the one that shocks me is when people say that sex outside of marriage (premarital or extramarital) is not sin, because it's common.

 

It's not about judging or being judged, it's about understanding that you are not the standard.

 

I do some of the things mentioned above. I know that they are not sins, not because I do them, but because I've seen from the scriptures that they are not or I've not seen scriptures that say that they are sins. So I won't tell you that they are not sins because I have the Holy Spirit and He didn't convict me.

 

Peter had the Holy Spirit, but Paul told us in Galatians that Peter was hypocritical. I can imagine Peter saying his action was acceptable since he does so.

 

God's word is FINAL AUTHORITY. It's not about you at all.