Preaching 32

This is not mine I am only the messanger.
It is of absolute and complete importance that we as Christians who make up the Holy Church undestand that we should resist and dispise sin but accept and love the sinner. This is to help point out major differances and prove the sinner is not the sin. First off sin and the sinner are seperate because image is different. The sinner is a human being who "God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Gen. 1:27, the sinner therefore while not perfect is made in the image of God. Sin however is a abomination before the Lord and therefore is seen cannot be in His image and likeness. Secondly their origins are different. God created humanity without sin. Sin entered the world when humanity rebeled against God in the Garden of Eden. Thirdly their purpose. Man was created to tend the Garden of the Lord and Woman was made to have fellowship with man. Both man and woman were created to have fellowship with God to love, worship, and be friends with God. Sin is the act of open, knowlageable, and willing rebelion against God and is therefore evil, evil has one purpose to destroy. Fourthly God has pardoned the sinner but has condemned sin. When Jesus Christ died He took became the sin of all sinners that would come to Him for salvation. All sinners who call on Jesus receive His rightiousness. While on the cross of Christ the sinners were saved sin itself was crusified and the punishment of God was poured out on Jesus.