Sin is not an act, it is a living creature that dwells, that kills, that desires, that feeds off the law of God for its existence, that lusts and to which fallen men are slaves and from which God died and rose again in Jesus Christ to separate us once and for all.
Romans 6:7-12 For he that has died is justified from sin. 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, 6:9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more. 6:10 For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God. 6:11 So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
But free willers, particularly fake Christians so deceived that they have free will because they have been taught that sin is an act they supposedly do in free will that they are afraid to do “a sin” as an act that anybody, anywhere in non-creating speech says is a “sin”. But in being free from the whole creature that is sin we are no longer held to judgment over acts that God does through us no matter what they may be. We are free to do justice at all times in Truth/Jesus Christ while the Liar, non-creating speech/human speech and the Dragon/Lucifer/Satan keep trying to make Christians afraid of doing God’s will ( and then accusing us to God for not having done it..) as long as doing God’s will falls under some “act” that false Christianity ( the Pope, Romanists, free willer religion, etc..) says God prohibits as “sin”.
The single lie that sin is an “act” at all, much less done in free will, is a common lie among all false religions that has kept liars, murderers and thieves alive on this earth and injustice in government perpetual as it affords those very liars the opportunity, as non-creating speech does it through them of merely making up acts and models of behavior that they idealize as sin as public education that just so happens to guarantee their own existence in their absence. The “Pope” of the Romanists free willers makes up “sins” to tie weak Christians up in lies ( while he manufactures liar after liar and child abuser after child abuser among his ‘priests’ ) that to actually do the “acts” that are the doing of justice is supposedly prohibited by God. So-called “conscientious objectors” in the military have been deceived by that lie over and over. Christians today are completely deceived that sin is a “act” and not a living creature and look at society ..it is the result of complete inaction on the part of Christians. Today’s Christians are so deceived as to think that saying the Truth is a “sin”.
“Moral Relativism” ( the lie that an “act” is an “act” is an “act”! that is a sin no matter who does that act or under what circumstance ) is explicitly empowered by the lie that sin is an act at all. Everything from the fake “Love” doctrine of communist instigators and homosexuals/transgenderists to the “racist” doctrine of all pagans and communists everywhere absolutely depend on the citizen being deceived that sin is an “act” people ( who they are thoroughly deceived have free will ) supposedly do in free will. Their enemies have turned the true fear of God that the people have against them with that one lie. It weaponizes the true fear of God that God has given us as grace and turns it against us, making us afraid of lack of forgiveness for whatever new ‘act’ can be made up by the liars.
Edit as large addition on 7/25/2021: In addition, because of that weaponization of the fear of God, we can come to fear God in a timid way unless prevented by it by God or saved from it by God,..we can be decedived into fearing God “as a commandment of man” ( by non-creating speech/human speech ) and are in fear we have not satisfied God when in Truth He has done it in us and for us on our behalf. Because we have been deceived by such fake sin-as-act tactics in past times, we lie under the wrath of God who has prohibited us from fearing Him in a dishonest way and specifically “as a commandment of men”.
To wit:
Isaiah 29:7-16 And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 29:8 It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion. 29:9 Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 29:10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered. 29:11 And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed. 29:12 And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read. 29:13 And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men; 29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid. 29:15 Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 29:16 Oh your perverseness! –Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
The penalty for such fake fear of God that is nothing more than self-satisfaction of doing religion ‘properly’ while reserving our hearts attention to be in the fear of non-creating speech/human speech and its dictates all the day in the stead of reserving all our fear for God and Himself as Creating Speech/Jesus Christ/His Own Speech, is to be lost in fake sins and fake fears. While those so deceived are supposedly growing more innocent before the false god of Sin that keeps prodding them into submission with new rules and ‘acts’ to avoid, they grow more guilty before God as they exchange what is good for evil and turn what is well known to be righteous behavior into the new evil and evil for good as they turn what is plainly understood to be evil into the new righteousness. In addition, the penalty is to fear God in vain, for a vain reason He has not mandated and to remain in that fear and not be perfected in love, which then Satan then uses as an accusation against us in our hearts.
1John 4:16-18 And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 4:17 Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world. 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.
The more sin-as-act sins are made up and introduced, the more fake Christian hearts rejoice as it, in their own eyes ‘grows religious opportunity’ and the more evidence of the latest fear they present in public they misinterpret as proof of deeper spirituality and love. It manufactures cowards who are great protestors of their own spiritual depth to be cowardly. Then, in the usual self-defence by sin through them of having lied about how and why they ‘fear God’, the new fears ( new sins-as-acts ) instead of being seen as more slavery and behavior modification of simple and gullible persons are misinterpreted as being superior and smarter than the sin-as-acts of their parents and those of past ages and thus their piety to the prevention of those ‘new sins’ is superior to the piety of their parents and historical figures that God used to build their nation. Indeed, those of the past who were supposedly ‘doing’ what has been newly defined as ‘sin-as-act’ are supposedly guilty-all-through-history that the newly defined sin-as-act exposed and the youth are supposed to reject those who gave their lives so that the youth could live in peace, safety and prosperity and bow to their new masters who are the ones who teach them all the new sins-as-acts to come. Every generation that falls for that lie that sin a mere act rather than a living creature therefore gets worse and worse morally as they must reject what God has said are of the actions of the creature that is sin through the body of its victims and instead call what God calls sins new freedoms that the supposed wisdom of the new -acts-as-sins has revealed. That generation hates their parents, thinks of themselves as the best generation in the history of the world while they grow more and more corrupt and more and more evil.
Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good. 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men : they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men. 5:27 As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves. 5:28 They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. 5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 5:30 An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land: 5:31 the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by their means; and my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end thereof?
Inevitably, in order to keep on with the supposed ideal ability to define new sins as a supposed power over others, those who are communicated, spoken and written through to make up the new sins-as-acts by non-creating speech must say that God’s rules are unfair or no longer valid and put what is well understood to be evil as the new spiritual ideal of being good. But God forces them all to do so to their destruction. Because God as Word does not change and has not done away with any of His commands.
God forces them to be evil and then punishes them for the evil and the slavery to sin in which they rejoice:
2Thess 2:11 And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false, 2:12 that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.
And still Says as Himself as Creating Speech:
Proverbs_17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, ( what God calls good and evil ..note mine ) evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs_28:10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.
Isaiah 5:20,21 Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!
Luke 17:1 And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come! 17:2 It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.
It is an evil type of cleverness to lie and merely define sin as “an act we do in free will” and to say “if you can’t do it, then it can’t be a sin!” to hide that sin is a living creature that lives and IS sin even when it isn’t ‘doing anything’. But that lie is at an end.
Sin is a living creature from which God has separated us forever as Christians, leaving us completely free to do whatever God does through us any time God does it through us.
Luke 12:1-3 In those times , the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known; therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen