Like many words, "sin" has more than one meaning, which one can easily see from looking it up in a dictionary:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
An offense against god is the first meaning listed at the above link, but the word can simply mean 'wrongdoing,' as one can see from the second definition at the above link.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
An offense against god is the first meaning listed at the above link, but the word can simply mean 'wrongdoing,' as one can see from the second definition at the above link.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.