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What Exactly Are Sins?

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What Exactly Are Sins?
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Man, am I happy that most states no longer believe that bullshit.
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 3:04 pm

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 3:17 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(April 27, 2015 at 1:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Especially when you make fundamental parts of Human nature sins. The urge to have sex being a prime example. Though the best is probably thought crime, because you literally can't control your thoughts.

Sex is only wrong outside of marriage.

Heterosexual, monogamous marriage, in some circles. And even masturbation is stigmatized by some groups. Why? Why is there so much restriction on one of the foundations of our species? It goes right back to control.  
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#44
RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Sin is anything against God's nature. God said, Be holy as I am holy.

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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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#45
RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:10 pm
I'd just like to point out again that belief and disbelief are not a choice.

So making something that is not a choice a sin is either sadistic or insane.
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:17 pm
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:18 pm (This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 4:18 pm by robvalue.)
I'm firmly again gay toaster marriage. I mean what would happen next, electricity marrying the moon?
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:19 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 4:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: Sin is anything against God's nature. God said, Be holy as I am holy.

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What is your definition of holy? What exactly does it mean to go against god's nature?
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 4:51 pm
We don't know anything about "God's" nature. All we have are stories about this god and what people in power, with agendas and vested interests of their own, have written about it over the centuries.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 5:04 pm

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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