RE: the nature of sin
May 13, 2020 at 7:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2020 at 7:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Fun question - what makes sin sinful, if not what makes wrongs wrong?
I'd contend that sin is a parasitic concept which has no meaning apart from moral agency. In the wider view, it doesn't really matter that people can get their list of sinful things wrong - no more so than it matters that people can get their list of moral things wrong - often for the same reasons in both cases. Sin has changed as morality has changed. It's difficult to understand why this would be so absent an inextricable relationship between the two.
I'd contend that sin is a parasitic concept which has no meaning apart from moral agency. In the wider view, it doesn't really matter that people can get their list of sinful things wrong - no more so than it matters that people can get their list of moral things wrong - often for the same reasons in both cases. Sin has changed as morality has changed. It's difficult to understand why this would be so absent an inextricable relationship between the two.
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