Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is sin?“, Leave a Reply below!
A made up concept to keep people in line. Even the big ones like killing another person are passable in certain situations. Plenty of people have died because they were “sinners”… yet the people who killed them were honored. So sin is just a man made concept to make people follow rules and laws.
Sin is an illusion, appearing real, just as we think this world is real. In my “real-world” terms, it is probably easier to identify it as thought, action or feeling something that does not harmonise with love. However sin is a personal judgement and is likely to differ from person to person.
“Sin” is the name given to things ethically unappealing in one specific geo-cultural system.
Carole – I cannot say it better than you. Well said.
Sin is a measure used to justify excluding and punishing people you don’t like.
I view sin as an awful fiction created by religious persons as a means of controlling the actions of others, as well as how others are viewed by the local group.
I understand that the word has other definitions, but I believe the preceding “sin as weapon” concept is probably the most useful one in general.
Sin is anything that broadens the intellectual horizons of the pew beyond the sight of the pulpit.
Sin is a religious concept designed to convince people they have a problem and their religion has the only cure for this condition. In reality there is no such thing as sin.
sin is the fear that religions put into people, sometimes for nothing and it can lead to very bad things, but also good things in the eye of the beholder.