{"id":15878,"date":"2025-07-29T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15878"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:43:07","slug":"iniquity-or-lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15878\/iniquity-or-lawlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Iniquity or Lawlessness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was listening to a recent sermon, (I think it was the one entitled &#8220;How do you make Jesus feel?&#8221;) \u00a0 I don\u2019t remember where it was in the sermon, but you made a point that there was a difference between iniquity and lawlessness \u2013 and that lawlessness was the more accurate word for that scripture sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I studied the references in my concordance, and they both seem to indicate that both words are \u201ctransgressions of the law\u201d,\u00a0although\u00a0<em>iniquity<\/em>\u00a0seems to include the definition of wickedness, but lawlessness just means those who were not subject to the\u00a0law, such as Gentiles.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would appreciate your clarification on this, if we must make the distinction between the two words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Brad.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Iniquity is lawlessness because &#8220;sin is lawlessness&#8221; (1Jn. 3:4).\u00a0 What I was saying is that in the King James translation, and some others, the word that is translated &#8220;iniquity&#8221; is actually the Greek word for &#8220;lawlessness&#8221;.\u00a0 We have chosen to translate that word as lawlessness because, in our view, it more precisely reflects the original mindset of the New Testament authors.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>It is not that big a deal, really.\u00a0 If someone prefers to use the word\u00a0iniquity, that is not a problem.\u00a0 It still gets the point across, which is, sin is bad, so don&#8217;t do it!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I was listening to a recent sermon, (I think it was the one entitled &#8220;How do you make Jesus feel?&#8221;) \u00a0 I don\u2019t remember where it was in the sermon, but you made a point that there was a difference between iniquity and lawlessness \u2013 and that lawlessness was the more accurate word for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15879,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878\/revisions\/15879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}