Here are 3 major reasons not to sin.
1. It diminishes and taints the glory of the Father.
2. It crucifies afresh the Lord Jesus Christ
3. It vexes and grieves the Holy Spirit.
The Big Cleaver
Genesis 2:24 speaks of leaving & cleaving as a man’s responsibility when he takes a wife to himself. It is interesting to note from the English perspective that the word “cleave” offers two distinct meanings. Both are verbal: one means to adhere to and the second means to divide or split asunder. The Hebrew word “dabaq” signals “to cling to”, “to be joined to” and the Latin “adherebit” confirms this. The second English meaning apples to the “leaving” part – for a man does divide from his father and mother to form a new union. Marriage really is the Big Cleaver and thank God for it.
Barbaric Cosmology
The idea that morality can be simply derived from natural reason is barbaric to say the least. We could apply the source of morality to anything apart from God, and frankly the idea would still be ultimately barbaric. It is a monumental leap of vain imagination for anyone to consider (as most cosmologists do) that the universe arose from nothing, and that this “nothing” in turn was certain to give rise to something. As Maria sang, “nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could; so somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” (from Sound of Music). Pathetic theology, to say the least, but she makes a connection. The only way something comes from nothing is if God does it. To think that some random process spontaneously explodes out of nothing is intellectual folly, nevertheless it is indulged in persistently.
Cosmology refers to origins – origins of the universe. Darwin hypothesized about origins. His followers continue the tradition. Uncertainty marks their work. If science is supposed to convince – it has not done a good job here.
Creation – Genesis 1:1
3 facts:
1. The Time of Creation – “in the beginning”
2. The Agent & Action of Creation – “God created”
3. The Extent of Creation – “the heavens & the earth”