* ask why would skillet would write a song like this.. * tie it all into how: * God is sinless. completely ref's to Holiness: 245 in the Bible. -Rev 4:8b angels sing... -1 peter 1.13-16: holy life -1 Jn 1.5--no darkness - James 1.13-18 god doesn't tempt * Man is made sinful through Adam 1 Jn 1.8 - nobody's perfect. Why? - because Adam sinned: - Rom 5.12 sin thru adam, death thru sin... - that becomes his nature. - he then gives birth to sin. - Thereby, we are sinners. - although we also sin, making us sinners. * This separates us from God.[depravity] -Rom 3:23: sinned, short of god -Rom 6.23: wages sin=death -1 John 1:8 all sin * The only way to commune/asscociate with God is to be cleasened from sin. * Hence Jesus. -John 14.6: no man comes to the father except through me refs: prov 20.9 no man can cleanse his heart from sin. -1 John 1:9 faithful to forgive & cleanse * Salvation cleanses, but doesn't remove sin nature. ps 32.5 * Until resurrection.