What is sin?

Sin is like a virus

Sin is like a virus that contaminates Gods' good creation and makes it malfunction.

17. “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:17

We humans tend to, not understand, why sin bothers God. Unbelievers joyfully sin and short of war and murder don’t see anything as really bad.

Modern Christians often have a misinformed and un-Biblical “God is love” doctrine, which leaves us free to sin as much as we want. This licentious doctrine teaches that the Father “punished” Jesus for our sin, and so we can basically carry on sinning and it is actually all OK.

The New Testament has a scary high standard

6. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.7. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.8. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.9. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:6-10

Death is the only solution

7. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Romans 6:7

6. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6

In Christ we have been baptized into His death

1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?2. Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?3. Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?4. Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.5. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,6. knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Romans 6:1-6