Since I led a Bible Study into Isaiah 1 this week, I’ve been wondering about sin. What is the core/root/heart of sin? When I hear church people talk, I am led to think that sex is the worst sin (so sin is bad behavior). In some circles, Romans 14:23 is quoted: Sin is anything not of faith (sin is the absence of faith).
But I noticed this week that the first two of the ten commandments focus on what we worship: we should worship God only, and we shouldn’t worship idols. So maybe we should focus more of our attention on idol worship — placing anything else in the center place of the universe reserved for God. This would mean that sin flows from our worship, not our faith or or behavior.
Since I’ve heard a lot more warnings about sex and disbelief than false worship, I guess that we don’t have a handle on what idol worship looks like in our millennium.
Can you help me out? What do 21st Christians and non-Christians do that violates the 2nd Commandment?