do we truly understand what sin is?

Question

so many of us are adament about naming specific 'sins', and that some are 'worse' than others.
do we truly understand what sin is?
what are your thoughts?

dear daisymae: you are SO on the right track... but there is alittle more to it than that....
can you expand?

some of you are quite close to the answer. If anyone cares to expand, please do.
In defining sin, think about it as a THING, not an action....

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 going against your conscious...It is doing what ever you feel in your heart is wrong. That's sin. I think sin is different for everyone. God will judge you accordingly to your heart.

Live happily without constantly worrying if what you are doing is a sin. From the moment you think it, your conscious ( which is the Holy spirit ) will tell its a sin...then you can back away and do the right thing.

Answer 3

Well God says no sin is worse than another--amd I think you have brought up a very interesting question--for the longest time I thought once you were forgiven--then you were not held accountable any longer for your sin until I realized that with sin there is consequence--even when you are forgiven! Look at David when he took Bathsheba for his wife after DAvid had her husband put on the front lines of battle knowing he would probably be killed. Well, David realized he had done wrong but still his firstborn child with Bathsheba died.

Answer 4

Sin is "to miss the mark" A military term meaning: If we are in Christ and he in us--then our goal should be Jesus and perfect Righteousness--Anything short of that is to miss the mark. How then should we live? "If any man be in Christ he is a new Creation old things are passed away all things are become new. We become a new creation-literally a metamorphism takes place. With the assistance of the Holy Spirit. "We strive toward the mark of the higher calling which is in Christ Jesus"

How
1john 1:9 "If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleans us from all unrighteousness"

1 John--is written to saved people about how to deal with sin in our lives. This verse is a third class conditional clause--it mean--we can confess with the results tending toward Good. It is not a mandate--you can if you desire. John basically says if you confess(to site, tell,list, verbally) your sins he will forgive those sins and the bonus is he will take care of those sins we don't know we committed. (hurting someone feeling) and not realizing that it was done--(things like that.)

Sin is separation from God Without fellowship we cannot talk to God. As Children of God it is imperative to walk with God--Keep yourself in fellowship with God through the Spirit in the name of Jesus.

Answer 5

First of all, sin means to make a mistake. In my opinion that makes all of us sinners 24/7 with no hope because we all make mistakes. We're human. But, I don't believe in sin. Sin was what a person from ancient days blamed all their faults on. It was a scapegoat of sorts. Kind of like, the devil made me do it. It was an excuse for their behavior. When we put things in their proper context everything starts to make sense. We need to understand from the point of view that they were originally begun in. Our modern interpretation has absolutely nothing to do with the original intent.

Answer 6

Sin is the transgression of God's Law, and contrary to popular belief, the Law is NOT out-dated or gotten rid of or nailed to the cross. It is very much in use still today. It's just that most people don't want to listen to something they believe is myth or fiction or whatever.
U know what the problem is? We have left God out of our knowledge and as a consequence we have become fools.

Answer 7

properly, for me, real technology and real faith are an analogous element...the way issues paintings. Sin contained in the Bible ability errors....attempting to interrupt the regulation of gravity by employing leaping off a 10 tale construction with out kit for that's an "errors" this is sin. in case you sin, you will harm your self, others, etc. Stealing harms people who lose their valuables, homicide harms the sufferer and the kinfolk besides because of the fact the kinfolk of the kinfolk member. Sin, errors motives ailment....having intercourse with sheep resulted in syphilus. eating uncooked stay monkey brains unfold SIV which mutated into HIV and grew to alter into aids. those issues at the instant are not curses from God, however the effect of medical or different "errors", as a result sins that human beings do which effect in a foul effect on them. this is how sin is faulty...... Debbie

Answer 8

Sin is to transgress GOD's laws.

1Jo 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

What's the law? Exodus 20 the 10 commandments.

Answer 9

Yes, I do. It is an outdated list of moral rights and wrongs that Christians believe are god given rules. Some even think that "sin" is some kind of substance that taints people.

In reality, even their "absolute" morality evolves as society evolves. What religions consider moral generally follows the moral changes in society, though it tends to lag quite a bit.

Answer 10

I think people know and understand what sin really is. But I don't think they understand that we must sin. You cannot avoid it. That is part of being a human being. You can live your whole life trying to be perfect in order to get to heaven but then you are not really living at all.