Who made Sin? (not "sins" as in bad deeds, but Sin itself")?

Question

It cannot be the Devil. The devil was once God's right hand man, an angle of light. So he couldn't have made Sin. He probably spread it, but not made it. The only answer I come up with, which I don't like very much, is God. Who/what could have made it? I don't want to deal with 'why' it was made, just who or what.

SO, who?

Some good thoughts here. I don't think any of them are correct, except perhaps the one about giving us choice, and to clarify my definiation of sin:

I am NOT talking about "sins" as in "missing the mark" or "defying God".
I'm talking about the Greek word harmitea, meaning the nature that causes one to sin. Sin which is inside us.

Answer 1

God has made all that was made, But evil is not in control, from Gods point of view he appointed sin for a time or a season, he said it starts here at point A and it ends here at point B some time in the future and he knows the day, Now you ask why? So his children would know the difference between Dark and light good and evil. And give everybody a chance to seek him instead of the devil..And learn that he is a God of Love..And to learn that end of the spectrum of that Love...

Answer 2

First, someone said that God needed glorified, which is preposterous and would only even occur in the twisted mind of a fringe Christian. God is Glory.

So, God, being a good parent set up the garden to teach Adam and Eve good and evil. Their human nature kicks in and Eve persuades herself (creates Satan) that eating the fruit is a good thing to do (she sin's). The thought of doing so could be considered doing so as well. Fine, so a serpent was there to, it doesn't matter if they were part of the "our" or royal "we." That's pretty tough theology, ask me if it is too much at once...

Answer 3

i can't wrap my brain around it too well, this is a good question....I think God gave man the capacity to choose. And, I believe the first sin was committed by Lucifer, the most beautiful and favorite of Gods angels when he committed the sin of Pride when he decided he wanted to be like God and did not want to be subservient to him, so God cast him down from Heaven and the devil was born. My own theory, of course. I guess if you want to getdown to the nitty gritty, you can't have Sin without God's law so....i don't know. All I know is God is just and some of these questions cannot be answered this side of Heaven.

Answer 4

Sin is when any of God's creations do anything out of harmony with His standards & principles found in the bible. So sin is not a creation, rather an occurence. Sin occurred first in the spirit realm. God had created intelligent spirit creatures, the angels. All of these were created perfect without evil tendencies. Yet, like Gods later creations, they were granted free will. A person may wonder how as perfect creatures, could one of them feel inclined to do wrong? Well, , how many times in our own lives do circumstances arise that confront us with various possiblilities - some good, some bad? Having the intelligence to discern or see the bad possibilities doesn't automatically make us bad, does it? So its which course we fix our heart & mind on. If we focus on the harmful thoughts, we could be drawn into cultivating wrong desires in our hearts and this could lead us to commit wrong acts (sins). (see James 1:14,15) This was what happened to one of God's spirit sons. He was enticed by his own desires. He evidently began to crave at least a share in the worship belonging to God (Luke 4:5-8). The bible, in Genesis , chapter 3 describes how that angel (who became known as Satan) set about satisfying his wrong desire. This involved Eve, who allowed herself to be drawn along by her own selfish desire. She ate what God had forbidden. Afterward Adam chose to disobey also. The outcome was the entire human family inherited sin. Adam and Eve could no longer pass on perfection as they no longer possessed it.

Answer 5

In religious morality sin is the act of disobeying God. Did God know that humans would disobey him? (First contradiction of religious morality). Do animals sin when they kill each others or do they just obey God? (Second contradiction) Is sin possible only for conceptual beings who can understand the difference between what is for life and what is against life? Why did God give conceptual beings free will and thus allow them the choice of disobeying him? (Third contradiction)

Morality based on religion turns logic inside out. That's why people say God operates in mysterious ways. If a human operated like that, it would be mentally deranged.

In morality based on reason, sin is just another word for logical contradiction. It is by means of a logical contradiction that it is possible to justify any act which violates the life or property of another person.

For example, if I follow the principle that I can live, but you cannot, force and violence are necessary, reason is powerless. That's a violation or sin. If I say, I must have what belongs to you, and you must give it to me by force, it's another violation. If I tell you something that is not true, I gain by violating your trust in me, and that's another violation of reason.

Morality is based on logical reasoning because logical reasoning is required for distinguishing what is true from what is false.
Religious morality uses the principle of deception to get people to follow rules without the use of reason. It's like the child who wants to know the answers of a math problem without understanding how that answer was derived. What good is to know the answer to a multiplication if one cannot multiply? What good is to give someone a license to practice surgery, if he had never attended medical school?

Answer 6

Sin was't "made" by God. Sin is anything that separates us from God. Sin is simply missing the mark that God has set forth for us to make the most of our life. It's a mistake made by those capable of mistakes. God is not capable of mistakes.

If you do something wrong and you know it, that is sin, did God make you do it?

I rest my case..

Answer 7

Sin, by definition is knowingly behaving contradictory to God's law... so I guess in a way, you're right. By giving Mankind commandments (or laws), and allowing Mankind to make choices, God created the potential for Sin.

It's like asking "who invented crime"... In a way it was the guys who rote the laws- they created the opportunity for disobedience.

In reality, each time we act in contradiction to God's laws and guidance, we create Sin. God gave us the opportunity to make choices for a reason- so we could learn and grow, and without the "fences" of His commandments, those choices would mean nothing. That opposition is vital to His plan for us.

Answer 8

You're talking about an abstraction. Sin can be described but it doesn't exist by itself. It is a type of relationship.

Consider another word: crime. Who created "crime"? Crime is a consequence of law. (No law, no crime.) It wasn't created. It's existence is entirely in relationship to the establishment of law. The word had to be invented to describe a legal breakdown. But without a law to break, there is no crime.

Similarly, "sin" describes a damaged relationship with God. It is the loss of relationship, like dark is the loss of light. There is nothing to create, only something to lose.

Answer 9

Biblicaly, the first sin was the apple eaten by Eve. Now, was it such a bad thing at all? With the sin came will, want, desire, awakening, consiousness. The Sin was a choice. Adam and Eve where perfect, innocent. The apple gave them knowledge, power, and with all this comes Sin. "God" created everything. And what we did with it, what we discovered, was our choice.

Answer 10

I don't know the for-sure answer to this question, but it seems to me that nobody made sin, it just exists. Sin is knowingly breaking a commandment of God and knowingly doing something that's wrong. So nobody had to make it, exactly, it's just what happens when people knowingly do wrong. That's my opinion.