Apostle Winston Joseph, Ph.D

Now, the million-dollar question is, having said that the law is terminated or nullified and we are made holy and immersed in holiness and righteousness of Christ, then are we free to commit any sin we feel like? No! Not at all!! The Bible says in  Romans 6:1–2, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” According to Roman s  6:2 by no means! As we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? Romans 6:3 says, “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” What does that mean? Christ died taking our sins, but now we don’t have to die taking our sins rather we have to die to sin. It means when the opportunity arises to sin, we cannot act to sin because we are dead to sin. When the opportunity arises for adultery or cheats or telling lies, we cannot do so, because we are dead to adultery or to cheat or to...

  Adam and Eve’s first sin (Unbelief and Doubt) Let us read, Genesis 3:4-5, “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” When we read both the verses carefully, it gets very clear that the first sin committed by Adam and Eve was unbelief and doubt. In reference to the above-given verse, the devil comes and says that God does not want you to eat it because the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God.  But in truth, Genesis 1:26 states that both (Adam and Eve) were already like God. So, first sin of humanity was doubt and unbelief in the Word of God.  Many people argue why it is on...