Is sin self-destructive?
Sin + God = destruction.
Sin has no self-contained mechanism that makes sin what it is, a transgression of the law of God and Offence to His Perfect Character.
Sin is a violation committed against a Trice-Holy God, in the breaking of His Universal Moral Law.
When sin is committed against God, in the breaking His law, God's law of, "you reap what you sow", is exacted and generates the operation of Punishment for that infraction, immediately to some extent and is Eternal in its ultimate consequences.
To say, "sin self-destructive", is to say, "sin has the existence of a similar Power and Holiness of God, and the Universal Law of God, and The Activity of God in Punishing and Judging sin, engineered within itself, internally.
The statement "sin self-destructive", by Offending itself, violating it's own rules, and that it has a self-generating power of Judgment, that causes sin to be self-destructive, and level Punishment against itself, is simply a denial of the existence of God.
From this text we see that sin is self-destructive independent from, and prior to, God’s destructive response to sin.
To say that God is not Omnipresent and His law Universal is another way to say that, but you won't find it in the text.
The origin of sin’s destruction is in the act of sin itself, not in God’s destructive response to sin.
"The origin of sin’s destruction is in the act of sin and the results of sin is in the Hands of an Angry God.
God hates sin.
God judges sin.
To say, "sin judges itself", is to say, "sin’s destruction is in the act of sin itself, not in God’s destructive response to sin", but there is not a word of truth to it.
“And truly this opening of the eyes in our first parents to discern their baseness, clearly proves them to have been condemned by their own judgment.
So, now we have Adam and Eve, "by their own judgement", somehow assessing the act of sin as somehow offensive to something in some way, to have them make a determination of it's requirement for being met out with Punishment, and then bring Judgment on themselves?
They were "condemned in their own" view and perception, as the already exacted results of their sin, maybe.
They didn't self-judge themselves any more than sin self-judge itself.
So, now we have two new false teachings, "sin is self-destructive" and "sinner's self-judge themselves".
We are not doing too good, depending on who's side you're on, I guess.
They are not yet summoned to the tribunal of God; there is none who accuses them; is not then the sense of shame, which rises spontaneously, a sure token of guilt?”
So, are we going to say "God is not Omnipresent" and "God Judging and Punishment of sin is dependent and limited to an official convening session of "the tribunal of God"?
How about, we need the Pre-Existant Incarnate Presence of God the Son, Jesus, "the Voice of the Lord", too?
Calvin says that Adam and Eve were “condemned by their own judgment” with “shame” prior to being summoned to the tribunal of God.
Calvin asked if, "the sense of shame, which rises spontaneously, a sure token of guilt?”
The guilt of sin results in the sense of shame, because of it's bearing on their consciousnesses. Who put that conscious there? God.
Adam and Eve were capable of having the guilt of sin and the shame of their sin, as a result of their guilt, registering in their cognisant awareness.
The guilt of their sin and resulting shame was the result of The Activity of God's Punishment of the Acts of Sin, for Offending Him, by disobedience to His Command.
For Adam and Eve to have a conscience awareness of their sin was, then, The Activity of God.
Their attempt at ascent was actually an act of descent.
These attempts to divorce God from His narrative and Universe, may be somehow an attempt at ascent, but are actually an act of descent.
Their attempt at self-glorification was in fact an act of self-destruction.
Any act of destruction on Adam and Eve was brought about externally, from a source outside themselves, and could never be considered as an exclusive operation of their being, internally.
It was a cosmic backfire.
Because God is. God's law is. And because God Judges sin against His law.
Below is just a beginning of a list of destructive effects of sin prior to God’s entrance into the garden in
Genesis 3:8.
Nice attempt at denying the Omnipresent God of the Universe, but you can't preach any of this, "in Spirit and truth", so don't bring your guns to town.
These are not things that God did to humans, they are things humans did to themselves in the very act of sin.
Incorrect, in the very act of stating it.
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they:
Now, we're coming upon something. They disobeyed their Creator that Exists and He knew about it, and fact that they were disobeying Him and His law.
Then, what is He going to do about it?
Wrong. They were in no position and had no dethroning power, within themselves.
Wrong again, whatever "dehumanized" is supposed to mean.
Dishonored themselves in their own eyes, and one another’s eyes, for they became ashamed of their nakedness (Gen 3:7), clouding the very image of God they are meant to display (Gen 1:16, 3:7)
Nope. Their dishonor and awareness of being ashamed were the result of their sin, by an Activity of God, not that their sin had any ability on its own, or that they had some special dishonoring talents apart from God's Judgment.
, “wickedness thrusts down to a level below mankind those whom it has dethroned from the condition of being human…
Wickedness does what? Now, wickedness is doing the dethroning, instead of their having some propensity for dishonoring themselves.
And this dethroning is "from the condition of being human" meaning what?
So what happens is that when a man abandons goodness and ceases to be human, being unable to rise to a divine condition, he sinks to the level of being an animal.”
What and who is this 'man' who was "unable to rise to a Divine condition"?
Where is a man that has "goodness" to abandon? Only, Adam in the garden, who was righteous and innocent, under the Covenant of Works?
When can we see an example of where a man "ceased to be human" and "sinks to the level of being an animal?
Disrupted their sexual oneness with fig leaves
Disruption was exacted on them, not from within themselves.
Adam and Eve became ashamed of themselves and covered their nakedness.
The manufacturing of shame, out their own resources, by Fiat Creation, was not on their resume.
Failed in their duty to one another as spouses
This is defining a sin, not the resulting effect of sin.
Dissatisfied their desires
I don't know about you, but I believe that I would also have to come up with some Disappointment in myself, from somewhere, if I got caught fostering this kind of gobbledygook.[/QUOTE]