The Majesty of Righteousness Part 4: Sacredness of my sin

Part 1: The moral argument
Part 2: What is the definition of evil
Part 3: The justice system
Part 4: Sacredness of my sin
next week:
Part 5: The majesty of the crucifixion

Last meet up when we were discussing a Justice and judgement system, we finished by discussing on one hand a person states God is powerless and incompetent because He allows so much evil to occur and then in the same breadth flips back and accuses Him of being a harsh unfair God by damning people to Hell. 

All the time while denying His actual existence and so basing God on a book written by humans, fictitiously made up about an imaginary figure  - which begs the question: who is this powerless harsh God? 

Either He exists or doesn't and if He does then He is either a Holy righteous Judge or not at all? 

The majestic nature of Christ's Righteousness is breath-taking: God creates mankind for relationship in the expression of love and treats your sins and mine as sacred and of the utmost importance by providing a payment for them through the Crucifixion of His Son.  We stand in the dock righteous before God when we shouldn't be. Breath-taking when one thinks of the gravitas of that offer of grace while also treating evil with the weightiness it deserves. 

I guess i would ask the skeptic- Inversely if God ignored the evils committed by mankind then what does it say of His character?  To the raped woman, to the transgressed business partner to the abused child, to the lie that u and i said today...

Have you ever asked yourself: Is sin sacred? That is, DO I afford it the weight it deserves ?  Moreover, does God? 

Wouldn't it be ironic if we were more concerned with our Sin and the Sin of others than God was?  Moreover we were more concerned that we received the appropriate due punishment and "just deserts" of our sin than God was…..

As an aside but analogous  I heard Bill Johsnon recall from a friend of his that said "When we beseech and beg God to heal someone, we're assuming we want them healed more than God does" 

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" [Romans 6:23]

and

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" [Ephesians 2:1-10]

What do other world views say of sin?

Buddhism:

From a conversation I had with a Buddhist on grace and forgiveness: 

Ben, I know is once u have bad karma due to bad deeds, it can not be cleared or erased at all. You can only do more good deeds to get good karma, meaning it will make bad karma less in portion. Like a cup of water, once it's dirty u can't just get rid of the dirt. You can only add clean water to dilute the thickness of dirt. Bad karma can not disappear by such things as forgiveness since what is done is already done.

I  think in buddhism we rely on ourselves to do good to fix our bad karma rather than rely on a superior being to erase our bad karma (sins). We are all considered to have our own buddha nature. So there is no need forgiveness by anyone but only to correct ourselves. We are responsible for our own karma not buddha or superior being

Neale Walsch - new age author, states in his conversation with god (God?) about the question of accountability of people like Hitler (because Hitler was REALLY bad, unlike you and me who are just a little bit bad and mostly good) is that there is no "good" or "bad", there "just is" and that Hitler did the Jews a favour by releasing them from life to heaven: "The mistakes Hitler made did no harm or damage to those whose deaths he caused. Those souls were released from their earthly bondage, like butterflies emerging from a cocoon"

Atheist: Sins do not exist - remember Part 1. Rather they may be a preference, but sin is a man made fictions ideology so to Justice. 

Has one ever thought of the fact that the majority of ills today are relationally based or causal from a relationship.  Therefore would it not infer that a requirement of God to "care" about sins would have to be personable, relatable and involved? 

The pantheist, atheist, agnostic, Buddhist have no answer for this.

"How can God exist when there is so much evil in the world…….?"
[implying: what are you doing about it God because I don't see much justice / action going on here…]
Funny: you seem so concerned with the sin "out there" that God isn't doing anything about, what about your own sin? 

John 3;16 speaks afresh...