(June 12, 2016 at 7:06 am)robvalue Wrote: Okay, do you think sin is a real thing?
I think it isn't, it's a man-made concept. It's often fallaciously equivocated as being both immoral (harmful to people) and something God doesn't approve of.
It seems to me that if sin is "real", then it's all in the mind of God. He's keeping tally. I don't see how it can be any other way. Why he would feel the need to keep tally, I don't know. How anything could upset him, I don't know.
I suppose people could think it's an actual thing that permeates our bodies. I think I've heard someone say that before. But there's no evidence of course for this. Even if this is the case, God has presumably designed things this way.
Mainstream protestant perspective is that there are two types of sin: 1)acts of commission--a transgression (positive) against God's moral law and 2) acts of omission--failing to do something that you should have done.
Acts of commission can be summed up in just 2 categories. Pride and concupiscence (grasping, coveting, craving). We have the 10 commandments (the law) as a start.
Acts of omission include failure to do something when you should have (like stop a harm or injustice when you had the power to do so) and unbelief.
Jesus summed it all up as "Love the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul and your neighbor as yourself".
There is no need for God to keep a tally (none whatsoever) because all it takes is one sin.
