RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
October 20, 2020 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2020 at 2:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, inexplicable. It doesn't concern our discussion what the relative amounts of good and evil in the world are. Sin is exclusively concerned with the bad, whatever the relative amount. Sure, sin makes us do The Big Bads, the murders and rapes that we use all the time to reduce these convos to simpler binaries - but it also accounts for leaving shopping carts in parking lots.
You, yourself...in this thread, have offered examples of where you think instinctual drives amount to bad things™. I've been suggesting that these representatives that you've offered are members of a larger set, and sin is a term used to refer to some common factor between those things in that larger set. That, for example, our completely natural tendency to use the least amount of effort for the maximum gain is a part of why we find ourselves with our hands on the cart, 20 feet from the cart area...and leaving it. Something suggests that it's not worth our time and trouble, that it's not that big a deal, that we should do it, leave it there. If all that sin was trying to account for were these little bads - there would still be these little bads, and these myriad relationships between moral states and practical actions.
You, yourself...in this thread, have offered examples of where you think instinctual drives amount to bad things™. I've been suggesting that these representatives that you've offered are members of a larger set, and sin is a term used to refer to some common factor between those things in that larger set. That, for example, our completely natural tendency to use the least amount of effort for the maximum gain is a part of why we find ourselves with our hands on the cart, 20 feet from the cart area...and leaving it. Something suggests that it's not worth our time and trouble, that it's not that big a deal, that we should do it, leave it there. If all that sin was trying to account for were these little bads - there would still be these little bads, and these myriad relationships between moral states and practical actions.
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