{"id":8282,"date":"2023-07-16T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","slug":"omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8282","title":{"rendered":"OMISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think &#8220;sin&#8221; is another one of those basic theological words that we assume we understand &#8211; but in reality we just don&#8217;t hold an accurate definition in our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this case, we tend to think too narrow. We associate &#8220;sin&#8221; with drunkenness or gambling or drug abuse or cheating on your spouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we&#8217;re not guilty of that sort of living, we assume we&#8217;re doing pretty good in God&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We always think of sin in terms of commission &#8211; doing what we shouldn&#8217;t be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Jesus said the 2 greatest commandments were to love God and love our neighbors. Those are both actions and we can break either command simply by doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can sin by taking no action.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those of us who don&#8217;t get drunk or chew tobacco or steal from our employers can rack up a hefty debt of sin by <i>not doing<\/i> what we are supposed to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then not even be aware of our sinfulness!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the tricky thing about sins of omission.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think &#8220;sin&#8221; is another one of those basic theological words that we assume we understand &#8211; but in reality we just don&#8217;t hold an accurate definition in our minds. In this case, we tend to think too narrow. We associate &#8220;sin&#8221; with drunkenness or gambling or drug abuse or cheating on your spouse.\u00a0 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}