Be ye angry, and sin not

[bruce]

See Ephesians 4: 26. The whole idea of being angry and not sinning can seem to be a contradiction. To me the key is to separate sin from person, and then impersonal sin can get the deserved anger or disapproval, which is directed at sin and not the person. Then there is no residue of anger clinging to us because there is no personal sense in our denunciation of evil. So the instruction here to be angry is really the requirement to not be luke warm in our position of good and evil, to recognize that evil is not any part of anyone, and that the divine character is, and to have a fervent love for this basic truth. Then sin will feel the heat and melt into its own destruction.

[Michael Pupko]

Thanks for clarifying the application of ‘anger’ and ‘disapproval.’ These nuances when not understood can seem like large contradictions and in the past when questioning about some of these instances never got satisfactory answers. How did I know they weren’t satisfactory? They didn’t ‘feel’ right which at the time I didn’t understand was actually ‘Spiritual intuition’ which I didn’t realize existed; had been taught forever out of the idea there IS God and He DOES communicate with us.

Heb. 1:9 “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;” Mrs. Eddy says is about the Christ. I still found it difficult to think it’s good for me to be ‘angry’ or ‘hate’ (since those were such a big part of my consciousness) the right things and I like this lesson on the proper ‘motives’ and ‘acts’ always are the defining point of all we do!!

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