RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 7:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 7:24 am by Nope.)
(April 27, 2015 at 12:21 am)Huggy74 Wrote:Are you saying that unbelief is one among many sins or that it is the only sin?(April 25, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Nope Wrote: What exactly is sin?
Unbelief.
(April 27, 2015 at 1:25 am)wiploc Wrote: Sin is doubting or disobeying Jehovah. If Jehovah isn't real, then sin isn't real either.
Don't conflate sin with evil. Evil (things that make people unhappy) is the punishment for sin. Evil exists regardless of whether gods exist.
Moral evils are one reason why people conflate sin and evil. Gluttony, for instance, is disobedient, but it can also make people unhappy. So, sometimes it is both a sin and an evil.
Sin is doubting or disobeying. Doubt is the bigger part. Eve's first sin wasn't when she bit the apple; it was when she entertained the serpent's argument that god didn't have her best interests in mind.
I am trying to understand how your beliefs work. Would something like rape be evil but not a sin?
