RE: What The Bible Really Teaches About Hell
December 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2008 at 2:22 pm by Kyuuketsuki.)
(December 6, 2008 at 12:05 pm)Daystar Wrote: I'll do it for you. The 2002 Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition - Sin. 2. An offense against any law, standard, code, etc. [to sin against good taste].
And I already did that:
Kyuuketsuki Wrote:No, whilst I accept there is a wider definition of "sin" its primary definition (& common usage) is religious.
Quote:From Miriam-Webster:
1 a: an offense against religious or moral law b: an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible <it's a sin to waste food> c: an often serious shortcoming : fault
2 a: transgression of the law of God b: a vitiated state of human nature in which the self is estranged from God
Their definition also happens to be wrong because there is no usage (at least that I am aware of) of the word "sin" that doesn't, at least implicitly, gain it's meaning from the religious connotation of the word.
To use the M-W example, "It's a sin to waste food" ... it implicitly gets it's meaning from the concept of wrong doing outlined in scripture therefore it's use is inherently religious.
As such, given that there is no validatable evidence supporting the existence of deity, I reject utterly the notion of sin from a non-religious POV and repeat that I am therefore unable to commit sin.
Kyu