That which we are innocent about, yet which leads to our failure, is associated with pleasure. That which we have knowledge about, that leads to our fruition, is associated with doubt.

I always personally considered "sin" any act we perform which knowingly leads to negative consequence or negative energy.

I think another reasonable definition is "that which we believe will lead to lasting happiness, but which inevitably does not."

You make it too complicated;
-sin is an antilexim!

Those actions that produce more harm than benefit.

Any action we take that puts our own interests before the interests of others, to the detriment of the others, I believe to be a sinful act. Or, put a simpler way, at the root of every sinful deed is selfishness.

Sin is disobedience to God and it seems we are born with it nowadays. It's untill you change.

Do you remember them saying,..... oh you have changed!??

It's to strip of all pride. (what will I get myself on the neck this time..


Nice thoughts systemresistor.

As a Christian Mystic .....back in the days when I was just an Evangelically brain-washed regular Ol' Sunday Christian ....I found that folks in the Churches mostly justified Sin ...i.e. We cant stop what we do, so we just repent and try to be better next time.

Being a surgeon of discernment, I would not settle for that. I began to study what other religions and psychology had to say about no longer sinning.

What I found was disturbing but at the same time redeeming.

The Sinner is the mind, a program made up and brainwashed by this world. However the mind is not inherently who you are. After wards, there is a simple shift from the perspective of the mind, to the perspective of Awareness being aware of the mind and its choices, thoughts, actions, etc

Awareness is the soul ...and being or resting as the Clarity of Awareness, takes all power away from the mind, which is also the sinner.

This is how One, no matter the religion ...achieves eventually a state of Sinlessness and Christhood ....or mastery of Self.

The Ego is the Sinner and The Ego must die. However the real you is not the ego anyway ....and what awaits you after Ego death is a Gazillion times better than operating from the perspective of Ego

I would say sin is something that results in something negative probably interpersonally. I would say though that perhaps sin is a more general condition that results from ignorance.