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sin manifest in them too in terms of information that is twisted to meet the ends of certain people to the point of being infectious.. Spreading misinformation that in turn affects society as a whole

It sounds like you don’t like what you see when it is presented to you with evidence and facts, so you’d rather think sin is the driving force behind it, than accept a reality that doesn’t adhere to your beliefs/ideals.

I think sin is just too convenient. Too black and white in a world where nothing is B&W, so I don’t believe in it.

Sin is a religious construct.

The Seven Deadly Sins were thought up by a catholic monk named Evagrius Ponticus living in Egypt in the 4th century AD.

Sin is a subjective negative force put uppon a subject, refering tyo it as something outside of it's nature's concept of living naturally. Sin is whatever makes human existance hell.

My private version of the Christian concept would go like this;
"Sin" is the fact that the human race has been alienated from God.
The other negative aspects of sin would follow on from that. When we're wandering around a darkened room, it's the absence of light which is causing us to knock things over, more than any power in the darkness itself.
Then the cure for Sin would involve doing something to heal the relationship, and end the alienation. Cue the NT.

We should first get insight to what the underlying words for our "sin" [Middle English sinne, 'Trespass' from Old English synn; 'to Offend or Violate'] mean;

Nine different Hebrew words are rendered as ‘sin’ in English. That said four of those words come from one family which produce the majority of the ‘sin’ renderings. Hebrew ChaTA 'suffer loss, waste' (etymon of the word "Hate") on 184 occasions it is the root behind three other Hebrew words rendered as ‘sin’ (like ChaTaH 'punishment, penalty'), it's 2-letter etymon being ChaT literally means ‘to miss deviate or fail'.

The following five words really define closely related subjects which the translators have occasionally rendered ‘sin’.

Two of these words are themselves related. The masculine noun 'AShâM and its feminine noun 'AShMâH speak of the 'guilt and guiltiness' of the individual. Both are generally rendered as "trespass" (41 and 14 times respectively) and "sin" 3 and 4 times.

A common word which is related to sin but only rendered as sin on one occasion is ‛aÂUôN. Derived from which means 'to kink, twist' the word is taken to mean "perversity", depravity or iniquity. The word is rendered as "iniquity"(121), "punishment"(11), "fault"(2) and "sin" once (1Ki 17:18).

A rather weaker term for sin is given by ShâGâH. When appearing with the word ‘sin’ it is in the expression ‘sin through ignorance’ (Lev 4:13). This primitive root means to ‘stray’ or ‘make a mistake’. It is variously rendered "err"(7), "wander"(3), "stray"(2), "go"(2), "ravished"(2), "deceive"(2) and "sin"(2).

Another marginal meaning of sin is given by PeShA‛ meaning 'to break off /away', literally to 'revolt, rebel or transgress against' some entity. By far its most common translation is "transgression"(84) followed by "trespass"(5), "sin"(3) and "rebellion"(1).


The New Testament has only three Greek words producing the English word ‘sin’; these are correlated to the primary Hebrew word family. but all the words translated "sin" throughout the Bible (thirty three altogether) revolve largely around two major concepts.
The first is that of transgression meaning "to step across" or "go beyond a set boundary or limit." This concept can be compared to an athletic playing field with lines delineating the boundaries within which the game is played. When a player crosses over those boundary lines, he has committed a "transgression" and gone out of bounds. Limits are set that define the playing area, and the players are to stay within the limits of that area.

The second concept, “Missing the mark target aim (intended objective).” Again, to use a sports analogy, if a player aims for the goal and misses, how many points does he get? None. He missed the goal at which he was aiming.
This view of sin includes the concept of our going in one direction but straying off course to the side and not continuing in the direction we intended to go, with the result that we don’t reach the goal we intended. We miss.

This concept also encompasses the idea of failing to measure up to a standard. For example, most academic courses and tests are graded or judged according to a minimum standard. If we don’t meet that standard, we fail that test or course. A minimum level of performance is expected, and anything less than that standard is failure. By not meeting that standard, we "miss the mark" and don’t pass. We can miss the mark by either missing the goal at which we were aiming or by falling short of that goal. In either situation we fail to reach the mark set for us.

Greek hamartanō correlates to the Hebrew ChâTÂ'. The Bible translates hamartanō as "sin"(38) and "trespass"(3).

The noun derived from hamartanō is hamartia. This is the sinful action abstracted out, this word can encompass that which was done wrong and can also be used collectively for things done wrong. It is certainly enlightening to note that the first Biblical use is in Matt 12:31 (‘… all manner of sin …’) and then John 1:29 (‘… the sin of the world …’) whereas the first two Biblical usages of the previous were to individuals (Matt 18:21, John 5:13). Hamartia appears 174 times and is rendered as "sin" on all but one occasion when it is rendered as "offence".

The final word "sin" to appear in the New Testament is anamartētos. It is derived from the negative particle and hamartanō. It occurs once only in John 8:7 where it is rendered: ‘He that is "without sin".


[edit on 2010/3/16 by YeHUaH ELaHaYNU]