TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE A POOR UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE’S BASICS, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN. Instead Of Wanting To Know Truth And The Reason Why Ideas Of A Creator God Exist And We Have A Need To Find Him, People Get Caught Up In Theology; The Study Of God And Whatever Pertains To Him. For many Theology is a boring subject that requires a philosophical mind or an intellectual bent.

How do I know when having wrong theology is a sin such as thinking gambling isn't wrong, having incorrect thinking about the trinity or misunderstanding an attribute of God?

Happy Riches answers request by David Creedon

Understanding the difference between right and wrong is not as hard as the confused attempt to make out. The worse thing about religionists and Christians is “know-it-all-ism”. The "ignorati" are big on know-it-all-ism too, because they like to think they are omniscient, and get cut to the quick when their ignorance is pointed out.

Jesus rejoiced the Heavenly Father chose to reveal the truth to babes (not young women) who are innocent and admit that they do not know much, rather than the know-it-alls and ignorati of this world, who are spiritually blind and intellectually bereft of understanding the truth about life—being born to die is not a meaningful existence!

Jesus extended an invitation to all who are willing to humble themselves and say that they have not the power over death and they know not the truth.

• Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30)

Those who fail to have the yoke of Lord Jesus placed over them cannot learn the truths of life. Instead they remain confused and baffled at the reason they are born. Likewise, so are those who do not like the yoke of Lord Jesus and cast it off.

The book of Hebrews talks about who is to learn the truth.

• Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him…. those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. Therefore let us go on toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ, and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God (Hebrews 5:8-6:1)

The problem about understanding what is sin and what is not sin and one’s own place before the Throne of Grace ceases when one humbly acknowledges the need to actually understand what is sin, so that it can be recognized when encountered. The only words written by the Finger of God exist so that we might know what is sin. Most people do not understand what God wrote. Therefore, they run around like chickens that have been decapitated, rather than having their sins covered by the righteous blood of Lord Jesus Christ.

When Isaiah said that God requires us to come and reason with Him, most people appear to think that this means have an argument with an atheist or religionist or someone else, if not oneself, instead of what the man actually writes:

• Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. (Isaiah 1:18)

When a person does not understand the truth of what God Himself wrote with His own Finger, or does not want to understand the truth, then issues like gambling, heresies about church dogma and other matters are like a thumb that has just been hit with sledgehammer, when one could have simply not put one’s thumb on the anvil, so that it could be hit, in the first place.

People who understand what God Himself wrote have no difficulty with understanding what it means to violate faith. Everyone else is confused, baffled and stabbing in the dark.