(December 1, 2008 at 11:02 am)Daystar Wrote:(December 1, 2008 at 6:04 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(November 30, 2008 at 11:03 am)Daystar Wrote: We are all sinners ...I'm not.
The Hebrew word for sin is chattath and the Greek is hamartia, in verb form (chatta and hamartano) it means to miss, in the sense of missing a goal, way or mark. At Judges 20:16 chatta is used with a negative to describe the Benjamites who were 'slingers of stones to a hairbreadth and would not miss.' Greek writers often used hamartano referring to spearmen missing his target.
So sin means to miss the mark set by someone. If you are late for work you have sinned against your boss. If you miss your son's birthday party you have sinned against your son.
Given the definition of what sin is and what it means to sin, how is it that you are not a sinner?
I haven't missed anything ... as such I cannot be a sinner.
Kyu