RE: the nature of sin
May 19, 2020 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2020 at 10:46 am by Drich.)
(May 18, 2020 at 2:34 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Maybe you should think about it for awhile. See if you can figure it out.
if you can elaborate your own position then why would i waist time on it?
(May 19, 2020 at 8:50 am)Gwaithmir Wrote:(May 14, 2020 at 3:36 pm)Drich Wrote: remember the story of UZZah who steadied the ark and kept it from breaking on the rocks below? he broke no moral laws. what he did was morally good. he broke a ceremonial law. he still sinned even though he did what was morally right.
Yes, I remember that tale from my Catholic school Bible study. It proved just how fucked up and unreasonable biblical morality is. Uzzah didn't commit an immoral act. God did.
again uzzah is an example sin is not about moral and imorality only. as uzzah's sin was not a matter of morality. this makes sin something bigger than a failure in morality. sin is like a virus, and if you do something to catch it back then you had to die which was the only way to contain it. now we have the vaccine.
(May 19, 2020 at 8:56 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There is no distinction between ceremonial and moral law in theocratic systems. FWIW, failure to satisfy divine requirements was believed to bring harm and misery.
which make sin something more than adherence to morality right?
if a breaking a moral act in the ot was the same as not offering God first fruits, then sin is not about who is good or who is bad it's deeper than that.