can you consider a mistake a sin?

Question

what if you accidentaly killed a person, has any one the right to condemn you?

Answer 1

well no matter what, if you killed somebody, you're going to pay the consequences. sin doesn't matter at this point, you'de be going to jail!

Answer 2

If you are driving down the street and you didn't realize that you are in a 50 zone and you are going 70 and the cops pull you over and you say you made a mistake does that put you above the law? You still broke the law whether you knew it or not. In His wisdom and judgement God is compassionate and loving but ignorance of the law is no excuse that is why Jesus died for all of us even for those who didn't know that they were breaking God's law. But Adam and Eve i think represent the last sinners of the earth - some will be decieved or make a mistake but others will deliberately sin but the consequence was the same for Adam and Eve. Look at the man who tried to catch the Ark of the Covenant when it seems like it was going to fall - he died remeber God said no one should touch it but he say it falling and that might be a mistake but the law still remained. God is longsuffering with us and therefore we should try each day to follow him and seek for ourself truth so that we will not be sinning and don't know it when the truth is free and accessible and because of neglect we don't seek for it.

Answer 3

No. If you make a mistake but you have the opportunity to learn and prevent that mistake, it may be considered a sin. For example associating a prophet or others to the One God and giving them divinity w/ God or following a religion that was made obsolete w/ a newer religion but you did not investigate and give yourself the opportunity to learn b/c of what others said, there is no doubt you will be held accountable. We have minds and are different than animals for a reason and just b/c life is short, it's not a joke, it must be taken more diligently and scrutinized fully.

Answer 4

If you weren't intending to, then no. Assuming that you believe in God, of course, He is your only judge. Other people could label what you did, but if you didn't have a motive or intention of causing harm, then no one should be able to condemn you. The law is there to punish those who willingly commit crimes (against the law), but that shouldn't include those who accidentally do something. Laws are there for the safety of the public, so if you didn't try to harm others, then there is no need for it. And God is the only one that can call anything a 'sin'.

Answer 5

If the death was UNintentional then even man's law recognizes the difference. It's called, depending on what the evidence shows, either manslaughter accidental death. The penalties for the former are far less than for a cold-blooded, deliberate act of murder. For the latter there are no legal penalties, unless someone sues you in civil court for wrongful death. Then the penalty is today's form of weregild, ie, fiscal payment for the life taken.

To be the unwitting, unintentional cause of death to another human being is to commit no mortal sin. It is a tragedy and a shame, but it will not in and of itself send you to Hell.

Examine your conscience. Can you say, in good faith, that whatever you did or did not do that caused that death, that death WAS NOT what you wanted to happen? Ask God for forgiveness for causing the death, accept His forgiveness, forgive yourself, review your actions or inactions and resolve NOT to make THAT mistake again. Then do your best to keep your word.

Answer 6

Dictionary - MISTAKE
Main Entry: mis·take
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse mistaka to take by mistake, from mis- + taka to take -- more at TAKE
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 : to blunder in the choice of
2 a : to misunderstand the meaning or intention of : MISINTERPRET
b : to make a wrong judgment of the character or ability of
3 : to identify wrongly : confuse with another
intransitive senses
1: to be wrong
- mis·tak·en·ly adverb
- mis·tak·er noun

Dictionary - SIN
Main Entry: sin
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English sinne, from Old English synn; akin to Old High German sunta sin and probably to Latin sont-, sons guilty, est is -- more at IS
Date: before 12th century
1 a : an offense against religious or moral law
b : an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible
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

Now it's your call....the only one that matters.

Answer 7

The Mosaic laws include making sacrifices for any sin a person might have committed inadvertently, without realizing it. Not sure which verses say that, but I remember coming across them. So, yeah, God even counts the sins you do accidentally.

Answer 8

NO person has the right to condem you. You need to pray and ask God for guidance. Murder is a sin but killing someone is not always murder. The Bible says not to judge anyone. Your actions are between you and God.

Answer 9

That would depend on the circumstances. If you were drunk and shooting into a crowd , or driving and talking on a cell phone, and accidentally killed my mom, I'd condemn you.

Answer 10

No; a mistake is something you do because you learn while a sin is something you commit because you are a religious human.

Answer 11

did you accidently kill the person while doing something that was a sin? you are responsible for your actions, weather you mean to do them or not. if you drive drunk, your not intending on killing anyone, but it's wrong to drive drunk. there are many factors that come in to play. need a better description of the incident.
or are you being vague....................