What's the real definition of 'sins'?
Would you grade or rate their levels the same way as the courts do about minor and capital crimes? Person with solid answer wins, fast!
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Sin is a word that proceeds from the Bible. Therefore, the biblical definition of a sin is a violation of the ten commandments- a desire of the flesh. Unlike the way crimes are labeled in courts ( felonies, misdemeanors..) that they are categorized as minor or major...sins are all the same. Although an simple lie may be seen nothing next to stealing, they are both equally the same: a sin, because they are both a violation of the commandments. Also, the interesting thing about sins is that you can never bbe free of one sin if you have another. In other words, if you break one single commandment, you are breaking the other nine. A bit complicated, but true if analized.
Of course, then there's a part where it starts looking a bit like our system. There are sins that fall into a slightly different category and are seen as the "worst sins". These are the 7 Deadly Sins: Lust/Extravagance, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Vengeance, Envy and Pride.
Hope you are a bit enlightened by this.
Good question.
A sin is an act that violates God's Laws. Start with the 10 Commandments for those laws.
Only God can grade or rate (or forgive) sin. That is not within the jurisdiction of man.
catholics believe in levels of sin. others say that sins are sins--transgressions against god area all bad.
A sin hurts a child or murder
simple actually. First, sin is not only breaking God's comandments, but also doing something you know is wrong, tahts why god gave you a conscience. Sin is what seperates us from god because he's 100% holy and so he can't be in the presence of anything bad. So basically, every sin is equal because once you've broken one, your sinful and dirty. A liar is just as guilty as a murderer before god.
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when you sin you know that you have done wrong.Read the bible to know the ten commandments!
The powers that be always seem to define sin as they like. One man's vice is another man's virtue.
One man thinks many wives guarantees a Heavenly prosperity and another believes it guarantees an infernal refuge.
Just about anything we do is probably characterized as a sin by some group of people.
To be guilty [taken from the Latin language]
Sin is a religious concept that indicates a moral violation against god(s) law. I didn't capitalize god because I am not necessarily talking about a specific god.
All western religions do not really have a grading of sins even though some are considered worse than others. Violation of God's law is wrong in these religions, period.
Sin is defined as any act against God's commands.
To explain sin and its levels Biblically, the Bible says that if a man keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles at just one point, he has become guilty of breaking all of it. It also says that everyone falls short to the glory of God.
In a visual explanation- imagine if you will that you were standing on the earth's surface and all around you you can see different elevations in mountains and valleys. However, if you were looking at this spot from space, it would look flat and the distinction between elevations would be unnoticable. Likewise, God sees sin as sin- he doesn't have a hierarchy, and He died for all of it. Grace, the resolution to sin, extends to all no matter what they've done nor where they've been.
Something to take into consideration as well- judges and courts enforce the law and make it active to keep order in civilization. If you were to ask a judge why murder is wrong for a civilization, the reason would probably be along the lines of "because everyone deserves a chance to live" or something of the sort.
However, Jesus tells us in the Bible that He is life- murder isn't wrong because the Bible says so, it isn't wrong because mom and dad said so, it's wrong because it contradicts the very essence of Jesus.
Lying is wrong because Jesus is truth.
Hatred is wrong because Jesus is love.
Paul warns the church of Colosse in Colossians to flee the elementary principals of the world, and those principals are found in legalism. We're not supposed to obey the Bible and what it says because it's our obligation, God wants us to obey Him out of our gratitude for all that He's done for us.
Another good scripture is found in Mark where a scribe asked Jesus which scripture was the foremost of all. He says to Love God and to love your neighbor, and if you look at all the other commands in the Bible, these two Jesus mentions go hand in hand and sum up all the other ones.
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