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The benefit of this is that it will allow us to, firstly put in more effort to stop sinning and secondly to accurately analyze the problems and harms that befall us so that we can see if it is because of our sins and react accordingly and thirdly to actively engage in seeking forgiveness to return to God; and finally to increase in good deeds.

But we should also remind ourselves that if we have been deceived into sinning by the euphemisms of our culture, God is still a forgiving Father.

If you choose to believe in the idea of sinning, you must not be hypocritical.

In other words, Paul had just set out the "freedom of the Christian" and then asked a logical question: "Should we continue sinning so that God's grace may continue to flow?" It sounds perfectly logical.

Theft and adultery are absent from this list, but there were still the Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the apostles, who had plenty to say about sinning. There was no shortage of sins for the Church fathers to choose from, and if they required assistance, Paul ne Saul was only too happy to oblige them.

(80) This encouragement of discord and sedition among his subjects is seen by Thomas, in another work (De regno ad regem Cypri), (81) as the transmittal to others of the audacity in sinning, with the consequence that the tyrant is also accountable to God (albeit indirectly) for their sins.