8368	Forums / Main Forum / The Bible On Trial	on: October 08, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
The law of God comes with a threat. The threat makes the law consequential to the action of the law breaker. Unless the law had a threat then the law would not have any power. So the threat is equal to a law having power. The threat equals the level of the law broken. Sin demands death, death was threatened in the garden if man sinned. The character of the one threatening would also demand that punishment that that eternal God would require for breaking the law. Because God is eternally righteous, then one small sin would equal an eternal judgement since God is eternal and the breaking of His will is the absolutely most heinous act being done before a holy eternal God. So the punishment level of little one sin would have the threat of an eternal judgement. Thats how serious God takes sin. The reality of Hell teaches us that sin should be judged and we understand the heinousness of sin by the reality of Hell and that threat. So really we are just living in a dream world if we think that sin is a small matter or it does not exist. Since there is so much fear in the world that amount of fear would prove that there is a real threat to cause that fear. Mans fear of death is what makes sin so very real. It argues against mens rationalizations. Man experiences fear because God is angry and man has alienated himself from God. Fear is the consequence of that alienation. Fear causes restlessness and unless man finds his rest in God he will end up experiencing that fearful fulfillment at his death.