Believing Christians Commit Sin Because Case Study

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While I am tempted to think that nobody will find out about it, one of the things I should remember is my relationship with God, which is of great importance to me. If I give in to temptation, I damage my relationship with God, like Adam and Even did. By externalizing the temptation, they sinned. If I were to give in to the temptation of cheating on my taxes, I would also externalize the thought to do so, and therefore sin in both thought and action. This would damage my relationship with God.

The temptation is however very strong, driven by the dual factors of time and that nobody would probably find out. On the other side of the argument, the potential damage to my life as a Christian is a strong driving factor to not let the sinful thought become external and enter into the reality of my life.

In his article, Andrew Womack provides some good strategies to deal with temptation. The first and most important strategy is to fight the temptation internally before it can become external.

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According to Womack, one of the strongest defenses the Christian has is his or her true identity in Christ. Knowing who I am in Christ provides me with strength to fight the temptation. Together with my knowledge of the Bible, I can then keep form externalizing a temptation to do what I know is wrong.

The outcome of this thought process is then to counter the temptation to be dishonest with my taxes by knowing that I am the child of God in Christ, on my way to eternal life with him. In the light of this, a thing like being tempted to cheat on my taxes seems unimportant and unnecessary. Secondly, Christ explicitly states that it is the duty of all citizens in a country to obey the laws of that country and pay their taxes. To disobey this, would be in direct contradiction to God's word -- something I do not wish to do......

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