RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 25, 2015 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 10:49 pm by Nope.)
(April 25, 2015 at 12:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Human nature, criminalised.
Best answer yet.
(April 25, 2015 at 1:35 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: 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.
That definition really doesn't make any sense. If an all powerful, all knowing, eternal being did exist, what exactly is an offense against him? How do you offend such a being?
When I was a Christian, I was taught that all humans sinned but now I realize, I don't actually know what sin is.
(April 25, 2015 at 6:05 pm)Polaris Wrote: A sin is that which creates a spiritual rift between human and God.
Thank you for the answer.
How does a spiritual rift work? What happens when there is a spiritual rift between god and a human?
Do you believe that humans have to understand that something is a wrong in order to commit a sin or can you accidentally sin?