What is Sin?

[Vic]

What is sin?

Why are there changes in attitudes towards what is considered sin in the Bible?

[strefanash]

what is sin?

anything less than utter perfection, and that includes our efforts at moral self improvement.

It is because i take with extreme seriousness the commandment "BE PERFECT As your father in heaven is perfect," that I am moving to give up the effort to try to be so.

I know my view of God is skewed, i see him as HOLY AND TERRIBLE but cannot belve in the love of God the Father. But he will not have me come to this love i ignored that night 30 yearsd ago by watering down the fact that he is HOLY AND TERRIBLE. and day by day he is persuading me on this matter

(terrible, BTW is an old word for awesome, as in "terrible swift sword in that Battle hymn of the republic

[Vic]

James 1:12-16 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.

[sheep wrecked]

(02-05-2009 01:12 AM)strefanash Wrote:  what is sin?

anything less than utter perfection, and that includes our efforts at moral self improvement.

It is because i take with extreme seriousness the commandment "BE PERFECT As your father in heaven is perfect," that I am moving to give up the effort to try to be so.

I think most people are taught that Jesus meant to "be perfect" is to be sinless; but God is not sinless. He is incapable of sin, and therefore, sinless is not applicable to His character. Only humans are capable of sin, so we need to check this out.

The definition of "perfect":

G5046
τέλειος
teleios
Thayer Definition:
1) brought to its end, finished
2) wanting nothing necessary to completeness
3) perfect
4) that which is perfect
4a) consummate human integrity and virtue
4b) of men
4b1) full grown, adult, of full age, mature
Part of Speech: adjective
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G5056

definition of sin:

G266
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
Thayer Definition:
1) equivalent to 264
1a) to be without a share in
1b) to miss the mark
1c) to err, be mistaken
1d) to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honour,to do or go wrong
1e) to wander from the law of God, violate God’s law, sin
2) that which is done wrong, sin, an offence, a violation of the divine law in thought or in act
3) collectively, the complex or aggregate of sins committed either by a single person or by many
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G264