What is Sin?

Question

Is it an offense against a Religion?
Or is it an offense against Morality?

Or is it perhaps something else?

Answer 1

Sin is not an aggregate of individual bad acts, nor is it a single isolated violation of a law. Sin does not merely involve the committing of one action, being sorry for it, going to confession, and forgetting its effects.

Sin results from a pattern of behavior we have allowed to develop in our lives. We are prone to be attracted to less than perfect actions due to the innate evil tendency within us we call original sin. Sinfulness is an appropriate term to use for the propensity to do wrong. Sinfulness becomes sin by repetition. It is like one who has a glass filled over and over. But it is the one swig that makes him drunk. The drunkenness has been building up. Sinfulness rests on inner motivations and tendencies and escalates into a pattern of wrongdoing.

Theologians call this habit of tending toward sin or away from it, our fundamental option. It is an underlying current pulling us toward and deeper into a basic pattern of behavior, oriented toward God or away from God. One does not fall into sin. You can say one chooses it through one's fundamental option.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

Sin is anything that will make a person guilty - either by your own feelings or conviction, or by the conviction of whoever is judging a person or by the conviction of whoever got affected/hurt by a person's action, decision or words. Anything that offends any type of institution or value or standard or culture may retaliate by accusing the offender of guilt. It can be an offense against a religion, morality, but it can also be an offense against a single being.

Answer 3

An offense against a deity. As no deity actually exists, sin is a bogus concept. Of course one can still "err morally", but it's not sinning.

Answer 4

Sin is defiance against God. Since morals come from God, it is also an offense against morality.

Answer 5

Sin is defined in different ways. Sin is a transgression of the Law. Sin is lawlessness(I John 3:4). To the Jew this meant the Law of Moses, or Torah, recorded in the first five books of the Bible. In another passage we are told whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23). That is to say, if it violates your perception of faithfulness to God, it is sin. To others who are not subject to the Law of Moses, sin is a violation of their own moral code of ethics. These 2 concepts are more fully developed in Paul's Letter to the Romans in chapters 1-3.
James sums it up this way: "To one who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin." (James 4:17)

Answer 6

Many have been perplexed because sin and its author, Satan, still exist. Some even charge God with the responsibility for it since He permitted sin. God is good, merciful, and all-powerful but He is also love. Each created being was endowed with freedom of choice. God wants people to serve Him because they choose to do so and not because they cannot do otherwise

Answer 7

Some thing adam and eve commited, since then man Sin Naturally , it take absolutely 0% effort to sin. But to be holy is a different story.
Sin is lust, murder,negative thoughts , hate,prejudice,cursing... anything that GOd hates

Answer 8

Sin is anything that separates you from God. It is an offence against Him, and an offence against morality

Answer 9

Some Interesting Nymphomaniac!

Answer 10

Offense against God.