Does that mean you also dont believe in sin?
2006-12-23 08:56:05 · 17 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maurice.
I believe in God but it has been years since I have believed in sin.
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
2006-12-23 09:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't believe in sin either until people radically changed his message and incorporated this changed message as the 4 gospels. Sin is in sync with a judgemental deity that is a projection of people's thought systems. It represents a very self-centered and immature religious thought system. When one advances, one views 'sin' very differently. Here's a hint: Joseph Campbell once said that he learned religion from the Tibetan monks who, despite years of suffering horrible atrocities from the Chinese occupiers, never said anything bad about the Chinese occupiers. They don't deny the atrocities but they have a very very evolved and advanced perspective on the cause/effects of conditioning and the self. This is IMPOSSIBLE to understand for those who are at the level where sin and a reward/punishing God makes sense. It takes a LONG time of questioning and self-awareness to get to the level that allows understanding.
2006-12-23 09:07:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Errrrrr... suuuuuuuure. And the Grand Magical Fantastical Pink Leprechaun doesn't believe in Christians.
2016-05-23 02:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe in sin. That doesn't mean that there is no such thing as right and wrong. I just don't feel like I need someone else to tell me the difference.
2006-12-23 09:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by marbledog 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
2006-12-23 09:02:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sin is a Christian concept so what do you think? If an Atheist doesn't believe in the Christian god, why would they believe in anything else Christian?
So no.
2006-12-23 08:59:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
And I believe man is good by nature. Sin is relative.
Steal? Why did you steal, to feel your starving family?
Cut someones throat with a knife? Maybe your a surgeon
2006-12-23 09:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by Honest Opinion 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe in wrong-doing, but I don't believe in the religious concept of wrong-doing for which I will be punished in an afterlife.
2006-12-23 08:58:56 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if by sin you mean doing something offensive to humanity, then we believe in it but call it evil. do you believe in "Check Spelling"?
2006-12-23 09:02:49 · answer #9 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's precisely what it means. no god, no sin, no great judgment. we do, most of us, however believe in living peacefully amongst eachother. moreso than most religious people since this world is all we got.
2006-12-23 09:00:03 · answer #10 · answered by Shawn M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋