I was just told that it's different from how I would define it, and I guess that he, or other like minded individuals (read: Christians) would in turn know what God's definition of sin is.
2007-06-21 18:09:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
any violation of the ten commandments is commiting sin....this includes quite a few things that you would not think pertains to the commandments....so every thing you do you need to think of how it pertains to what the commandments say you should not do
2007-06-21 18:27:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one sin that is not forgiveable. That is the one you should avoid. Christ paved the way for us, but it's the one that came after him's job now. It would be in one's best interest to search for the him as he is the one that brings us into all truth and understanding and writes his laws on our hearts.
Always treat people the way that you want to be treated. That was the law of the prophets. Do that one and everything else will fall in place.
From the beginning of the Bible to the end, God's enemy has been religion and Man's interpretation of Him. We shouldn't too much stock into the values of something that killed God's son. And it didn't get any better when they flogged Paul, stoned Stephen, etc.
Let the Holy Spirit tell you what's right and wrong for you and and leave religion to it's Father.
John 8: 42-44
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
These people swore up and down that they worshipped God and Christ point blank said they worshipped the Devil.
2007-06-21 18:57:28 · answer #2 · answered by pickle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin is an offence against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods.... It has been defined [by St Augustine] as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law."
Sin is an offence against God.... Sin sets itself against God's love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "like gods," knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus "love of oneself even to the contempt of God."
From Catholic-Pages.com
2007-06-21 18:28:24 · answer #3 · answered by amazed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would not define sin. Sin is a human concept to try and quantify life and God himself. Humans just cannot fathom the ideas that god put forth so they created religion as a way to make it simpler for our puny minds.
2007-06-21 18:15:47 · answer #4 · answered by MissWong 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that which draws you away from God.One of the old terms for sin was a marksmanship (archery) term. Just as the archer must take into consideration the wind, the distance to the target, the curve of the earth etc the individual who wants to be close to God must take into consideration those things which might pull him or distract him from his target. Those things are sins.
2007-06-21 18:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by David F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if you look at it in terms of original sin....
God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of knowledge.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command and ate of the tree.
God's command is God's will
Adam and Eve's disobedience went against God's will.
Therefore, you can say that sin is anything man does that goes against God's will.
2007-06-21 18:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by Micah T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You REALLY want the scripture tonight, don't you?
Sin is an offense to God, proof that we are derilect to Him. Forbidden and set apart from Him. It divides us from Him and even worse, sets us against Him. The word in Hebrew is pronounced, saw nay. To set against, or 'to hate'. So He sees us as 'haters' of Him. So all those Atheists aren't really surprising Him. And He decides which of us 'Haters of God' he wants to 'repent' into His grace.
I did not mince words with this answer. I think that it aptly and accurately describes how it is to Him. We "HATE" Him until we come around and begin to love Him. He gets the credit for that too. Because he decides which are drawn to Him, and who responds to Him.
2007-06-21 18:44:55 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your God. The one you means defines Sin as anything Humans like, because he is the demon El not Enlil. Sin was also a Babylonian God...of the Moon.
2007-06-21 18:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, start with the 10 Commandments
2007-06-21 18:16:25 · answer #9 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sin is deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
In other words, when we do something that we know is wrong and do it anyway, then that is sin.
2007-06-21 18:15:58 · answer #10 · answered by Tenn Gal 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋