Sin

*SIN/*SINFUL/*SINFULNESS/*SINNER - see UNHOLY, EVIL, IMPURE, IMPERFECT, MISTAKE, SELFISH, SEPARATION, IDOLATRY, FALL, SEPARATE, ATONEMENT, REDEMPTION

Antonyms: HARMONY, SELFLESS, SUBMIT, PERFECT, WHOLE, HOLY, DIVINE, RELATIONSHIP

Sin is 1. transgression/trespasses of divine law

2. to offend against a principle, standard

3. all unrighteousness is sin (Dict)

Sin means missing the mark (of God / goodness / perfection).

Our redemption came at great cost. At the cross we [should appreciate and] behold an unspeakable conflict where purity and depravity meet - where God who cannot look on sin became sin. (The God You Can Know, p80)

Yeshua means "the One Nameless Being who restores" the Kingdom of God is within. The Church has missed the point of Jesus' teaching by focusing on original sin. "The Kingdom of God is [already] spread upon the earth and men do not see it." Believing in separation from God creates fear and hatred. Believing in oneness with God creates security and love. Fear opposes different beliefs. Christ-consciousness is within us and has already come. (PS 2/7/09, Terry McMaster)

I believe that sin is an internal imbalance, a disconnect from the source, from God. It is not something to be punished for. This disconnect merely causes problems to send a message to the person that they are out of balance and to open themselves up to reconnecting and returning to peace. (http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/lofiversion/index.php/t802950.html)

Sin is paradoxical in Christianity because we are all sinners, yet sin is wiped out if we confess or acknowledge our sin with contrition (feeling bad or suffering over what we have done) and we can start over again with fresh and clean slate [forgiven]. (Further, p158)

Sin is really just a mistake. Sin produces guilt and fear of punishment. Sin is an illusion. Sin does not create a debt we must pay and does not need to be pardoned by an outside force. It is only a dream we must awaken from. (ACIM Intro, p30-1)

In somehow thinking we're separate from the Divine, afterall, man is a "sinner"...but to sin means to make a mistake in judgment, to err, to miss the mark and we have made the biggest mistake of them all by thinking we are only human. "The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge." (Amazon review of Eckhart book)

I meditated on how sin, selfishness, and separate are all related. (Randy, 8/2008)

He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom. (NAB Prov 18:1)

See the web for Harm, Evil, and Sin.

See the web for "God created us to be with him." (Gen 1)

See the web for Forgive us our trespasses (sins) in the Lord's Prayer - Sin (evil, fall of Man) is an attempt to negate the Truth that all is One, that we are one with God and all men. Sin, a sense of separation from God, is rooted in selfishness.

Seeking knowledge may seem more like virtue than sin. However, it isn't knowledge that God is trying to keep us from, but "lust for certitude, explanation, resolution and answers." (Amazon, Things Hidden review)

Hate the sin, not the sinner.

Healthy sense of sin is not being too excessive and not being too neurotic. (Fr. Champlin)

Experience is what you came here for and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others. The "sin" you have committed is that you do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others and when you do encounter the actual experience you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter. You deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think - by your parents, schools, religions, traditions, and scriptures. (Conversations, p62-3)

The "wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal" (Rom 6:23)

The "sin (not sins) of the world" (John 1:29)

For our sake He made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (2 Cor 5:21)

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves (1 John 1:8-9)

It is more than just a matter of "hating the sin but loving the sinner." God condemns the sin but loves the person who did it too much to brand him a sinner. (How Good, p53)

The effective extension of God's kingly rule had been hindered by man's sins, but now Jesus has come to establish that rule. (ReadingNT1, p46)

The sense of our unworthiness and sinfulness makes one feel inadequate to attain that which they desire and have already glimpsed. This moves many to tears and what the saints describe as the "gift of tears." The prodigal son tries to behave autonomously, forgetting that his life comes from the true self. It takes control of itself and seeks to fulfill itself. Such ego-fulfillment leads, however, not to finding of the self, but to the alienation from the self, isolation, lostness, and meaninglessness. The son leaving the father is like a branch cut from the vine: he produces no fruit. Separation from the source militates against life and the person must come to see the "unnaturalness" of the separation. (Contemplation, p<64)

Sin is manifestation of the pride that erects and clings to an ego which is independent of God. (Contmplation, p71)

When I experience pain at my sins as I stand silently before God in meditation, then brings me his forgivenness of my sins; how I am accepted - and how I am then enriched beyond measure. (Contemplation, p106)

Sin has power to enslave us (ie. addictions and bad habits). (Randy)

Like filthy rags. (Isaiah 64:5)

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Rom 3:2)

Where sin increased, grace abounded all of the more. (Rom 5:20)

It is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. (St Francis of Assisi, Admonitio 5,3)

Not in orgies and drunkedness, not in ... rather clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. (Rom 13:13-14 - Inspiration for St. Augustine's conversion)

Like us in all ways, except sin. (Heb 4:15)

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom 6:23). Even little sins like overeating, smoking, and drinking, put us to the mini deaths of obeasity, laziness, addictions, irresponsibility. (Fr. Furfarlo)

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus... For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son... to be a sin offering. (Romans 8:1-3)

God be merciful to me a sinner. (Luke 18:13)

In my sinfulness, I am awed more by power (ie. tall buildings, intelligence) than love and goodness (servantitude). I am not usually interested in other people or genuinely listen to them. I also have problems with the 7 deadly sins, ungrateful, omission, thinking I am independent of God, being dependent upon idols (money, security), and selfishness. (Randy)

Question 4 About the Kingdom of God - What is the greatest sin in the kingdom? (p259, 200Answers)

Unless man acknowledges that he is a sinner he cannot know the truth about himself, which is a condition for acting justly; and without the offer of forgiveness he would not be able to bear this truth. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1697)

Sin is thus love of oneself even to contempt of God. In this proud self-exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the obedience of Jesus, which achieves our salvation. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1850)

The 7 deadly sins are anger, envy, greed (avarice?), guttony, lust, laziness, and pride.

I need to focus on overcoming my shortcomings: all 7 deadly sins (anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust, laziness, and pride), impatience, procastination, stubbornness, self-righteousness, slowness in acting/speaking/thinking, inability to concentrate, not very alert, short memory, poor communication skills, physical limitations of strength and height, unpopular, uncharismatic, non interested in others, introverted, prejudice, sterotyping, ambitious, fearful, suspicious, insecure, mistrustful, unforgiving, hyprocrit, jealous, disobedience. (Randy)

Original sin is us trying to be God.