{"id":293445,"date":"2024-10-23T19:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/is-depression-the-result-of-sin\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:56:23","slug":"is-depression-the-result-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/is-depression-the-result-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Depression the Result of Sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">&ldquo;Godly sorrow brings repentance&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">that leads to salvation and leaves no regret,<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">&nbsp;but worldly sorrow brings death.&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">(2 Corinthians&nbsp;7:10)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\" style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">Depression is not a result of sin when&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">Your heart grieves over normal losses. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Your body experiences natural deterioration due to the passing<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">of years.<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Your body chemistry can change and become compromised.<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>(2 Corinthians 4:16).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\" style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">Depression can be a result of sin when&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You experience the consequences of your sin and don&rsquo;t attempt to change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You don&rsquo;t take the necessary steps for healing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You hold on to self-pity, anger, and bitterness when you have been wronged instead of choosing to forgive. (James 4:17).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You use your depression to manipulate others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You continually choose to blame God and others for your unhappiness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You choose to let others control you instead of choosing to obey Christ and allow Him to be in control of you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\" style=\"color: #000000\">You are willfully choosing to maintain a sinful life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenoffaith.com\/blog\/is-depression-the-result-of-sin\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Godly sorrow brings repentance&nbsp;that leads to salvation and leaves no regret,&nbsp;but worldly sorrow brings death.&rdquo; (2 Corinthians&nbsp;7:10) Depression is not a result of sin when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}