what is so wrong with sin, without sin we would never learn what goodness is or how to love, we would just be?

Question

emotionalist zombies?

Answer 1

daisy from that viewpoint you are right. Law of "Sin","karma" or "cause and effect" is the bridge that humanity has to cross to go from ignorance to the state of Grace.

Answer 2

I agree.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 3

Isaiah 5:20

Answer 4

Do you not mean to say that, while sin is wrong, the freedom to follow our own will, and to make mistakes, is a wonderful gift from God that enables us to learn what goodnes is? ...for what sin leads to love? But if we did not have the ability to make choices in life, would we then ever truly come to know love?

And so, if that is what you are saying, I agree! :)

Answer 5

Sin isn't neccisary to feel love or learn goodness. You can learn goodness just by learning morals and following them in the first place. And, doing good and avoiding sin doesn't bring love, loving yourself and having a strong self-esteem comes from knowing your doing what is set for you.
Doing wrong in the first life isn't necessary, because never doing the wrong brings even more satisfaction. love for another person, of course has no ties to being sinful, I mean you can love another person just through emotional bonds.
Sin is the stain all humans have, sin is something everyone can do, even perfect, being sinful just means we are born with sin and can do so by accident or just by having that sin in us. or in general not having as much restraint not to sin, as one without sin. a perfect person can more so choose to do right or wrong, but can still do wrong. so sin is always a possibility.

we wouldn't be emotionless zombies because we'd still feel joy for serving god without doing something wrong, or we could still sin and feel horrible for doing so, we could still love, and appreciate life, but even more so without sin in the picture to slow us down.
so no, sin isn't necessary to have emotion and be happy, because we could do so even without.

Answer 6

Would you like to get cancer to see first hand how painful and awful the effects are on the body just so you could appreciate good health. A definition of sin: Sin takes you much farther than you wanted to go, keeps you there longer than you planned to stay, and demands a price you cannot afford to pay.

Answer 7

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Answer 8

There is forgiveness for mistakes and sins in Islam.

Answer 9

Exactly. Because when we do good or bad, our inner voice rewards or convicts us accordingly. The same as: without pain there is no joy.

"Susie Darling": I've had cancer. Good things can come out of cancer. Would I wish it on anyone? No (well, maybe), but I wouldn't give the experience back, either.

Answer 10

with that kind of reasoning I guess I could say whats wrong with murdering someone without murder how would we know about life..get real!