Praying for you. Remember that God is the author of everything, even your sin. God has given you eyes to see your sin, that is a wonderful gift. I sin all the time too, it sucks! He has promised you that someday you won't sin, take that to the bank. Hang in there. God works ALL things for good. We may not know why God does what He does, but trust Him.
Hi Witten,
God is not the author of our sin. God tempts no man.
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith [not sin]; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
God is the author of our faith and grace comes by faith and faith by hearing. Grace then works as God's divine influence upon our hearts to perfect us.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works [not unto sin], which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
God created man subject to moral futility by creating in him a weak a heart and He also created a waster to destroy wherein these things together make obedience to God impossible of ourselves but that does not mean that God engineers our sins.
Romans 8:20 For the creature was made
subject to vanity [moral futility], not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately weak: who can know it?
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 15:18-20
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Mark 7:20-23
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
James 1:12-17
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his
own lust [which comes out of his own heart], and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Genesis 3:1-7
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
I really don't see how we can say God authors our sins. God certainly is responsible for our weakened condition which puts us, in this world, in an almost frequent state of sinning but it takes no part on God to make us sin. We volunteer for it because our hearts are spiritual weak. All He had to do was create us and the world and then without Him we go dark! With Him, we have the light and we no longer walk in the darkness so we are transformed into His image.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Unless someone can bring forth scripture that says God authors our sin... I just can't go there.
God bless,
Alex