(October 21, 2013 at 1:02 pm)Rationalman Wrote:so your going with option 'b'?(October 21, 2013 at 11:13 am)Drich Wrote: The existance of sin is a given in the OP, as is God, Heaven and Hell. therefore the existance of sin need not be discussed as per the orginal post.
That said:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sin
Or will you argue the defination found in this reference magterial with 'I still dont believe in it provide me with something else.'
All this proves is that the word 'sin' exists
you are really argue the legitmacy of the defination found in this reference material with 'I still dont believe in it provide me with something else?'
If the defination of sin exists, then by all rights it is a quantifiable concept whether you like it or not. If one can limit, narrow and/or expound on the prameters of sin then sin becomes a tangable concept. As a tangable concept sin enters into existance. therefore sin exists whether you believe in it or not, like it or not, yield to it's parmeters or not.
Just like the color orange, whether you acknoweledge it or not has little effect on an objects ablity to reflect the light waves to make it appear orange. Other people can see the color orange no matter what you tell yourself and as such the color orange exists. That is why in our lexicon we gave it a defination.