3877 - Faith and Sin by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 8, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 39.

3877 — Faith and Sin

By Editor

Does not Rom. 14:23 mean that it is sin to doubt anything God has said?

Yes. Sin literally is missing the mark. That is the root idea of the word. And the man who lives not by faith, misses God's mark. He may not sin openly, or do anything that is seemingly contrary to common, ordinary morals; but however it may be, if he is disobeying God, he is missing the mark. The one thing which the apostle is endeavoring to emphasize in Romans 14 is that we should not judge one another. We should judge this, however,—that we should put forth every effort to serve God ourselves, and not bring a stumbling-block before our brethren; that what we do ourselves, we should not be condemned in, but that we should by faith, whatever we do, serve God, and "he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin."