What is Sin?

What is Sin?

What is sin? The definition for sin is missing the mark, missing the ideal, or making a mistake, and you do not earn a wage for sinning, actually you earn nothing for sin, Now the ration given for sin, and that ration is dying or death, and we all die or dying, are we not?

That is the definition that some use… and there is a wage or what you get for your sin. To me death and dying in the physical has nothing to do with the “sin” that one does or does not do.

To me, and what I see from the bible… knowing what to do and not doing that is what is a sin.. and that is relative to me and me only.. and yet I know that what I do or do not do knowing that I should or shouldn’t… does cause me issues and consequences as it does with us all.

If I know I am diabetic and eat something that I know I shouldn’t.. then I am going to pay the price for it.. no one else. Me! However .. if I am a diabetic.. and cannot eat something does not mean that the rest of the world must refrain from those things or face the same situations that I do. Likewise.. knowing that I am.. and refraining from eating things that I shouldn’t.. results in me not having issues with my health that I would being diabetic and eating what I know is not good for me.

The same is true for “sin” or that which one knows to do and does it not concerning ones life with God. Death and dying in the physical was never a part of the equation and I find no place in the bible where men were told they would live forever in the physical if they did not sin.

The hell that we live in each day is when we know we are to do something and we don’t do it.. or when we know that we shouldn’t do something and we go ahead and do it. It is an eternal torment within the soul of a person that often cannot be escaped even with the promised forgiveness of a Savior.

The heaven that we live in each day is when we know what we are to do and we do it.. and don’t do those things that we know better than doing.. and have no torment in the soul but peace of mind and heart.. and having that eternal.

Once again the “knowing” is the criteria for it.. and even though there are times we do things not knowing that they are wrong for us… they are not will full and intention… but the result of lack of understanding and knowledge.. or “knowing” and those things even when they have consequences that we face.. we know and so does God that they were not done with willful intention or from the heart… so as forgiveness is available…the knowing which results from that remains… and “hell” is the result of doing it again even if you are forgiven for doing it the first time without knowing it was wrong.

Within each of us is an internal knowing that we all have. It guides us from the time we are born and those things that we know within us to do and do them not.. cause us to have great struggles in life and “hell” in our lives.

When we allow that knowing within us to be usurped by traditions of men.. religious mandates… etc.. then we are still going against the “knowing” that is within us… and it will end up being “hell” for us.. and we end up being tormented by those things for life… until or unless we turn from them and turn back to the “knowing” that is within us from the beginning.

That is what I see being “born again” that Jesus spoke of. Not going against what you know in your heart for no reason.. not for your religious mandates… or your understanding or acceptance of some mandate of traditions over you.

It is the “kingdom of God” that is within you… that Jesus speaks of. It is about getting back to the “original” knowing that is within us all.. that is there even as children… as in Jesus’ reference to “coming as one of these little children” not entering into the kingdom.

We see that as what was going on in the days of Jesus.. that.. men and women were following the traditions of their fathers.. and their religious mandates and were not following what was within them.. the knowing.. that they were equipped with by the Creator… God… that was the kingdom that was within them. They were preferring that a man’s withered hand remain withered rather than have him healed on the wrong day. They were taking issues with the healing of sick people on the wrong day.. or men that were hungry eating from the wrong place.. or not washing their hands before eating.. all religious tradition rather than from their heart… or the knowing that was within them.

So when we go against what we know to do… to us it is “sin”.. and in doing that we do face the consequences of it.. and the guilt and condemnation of soul .. whether another person on the planet knows about it or not… and yet also doing what one knows to do and not going against that.. no matter what .. also brings peace.. and the ‘heaven” where there is no tears.. no fear.. and no pain.. and we can have that eternally as much as we can live in “hell” eternally for going against the things we know in our heart to find acceptance of men.. to follow traditions.. or some religious mandate… and that’s the theme of the bible from cover to cover.

To follow-up on this topic a bit… I’d like to have you take a look at something with me.

The “missing the mark” as a definition of sin has been and is used as the meaning of sin.. however without much consideration.

If a person misses the mark… the person must first know there is a mark to be hit. Without knowing there is a mark, one surely cannot be considered to have missed it if there was no idea of a mark or that one was required to hit the mark to begin with.

If a person knows there is a mark to be hit and it’s a requirement to hit the mark.. then and only then would a person be considered to have missed the mark, having first made an effort to hit the mark, knowing it was there to be hit.

If a person knows the mark is there… knows what the mark is.. and makes the effort to hit the mark, then how is it that the person can miss the mark or be considered to have missed it on the first attempt?

So when the mark is known… and the effort is put forth to meet the mark… is it a sin to miss the mark? Is it an intentional act to miss the mark? Is the heart’s attitude to “miss the mark” or sin? No…. God is the judge of the heart of a man.. and most of us know well that it never was or has been our intention and willful act to go against God in anything that we have done!

However, what we also have to consider is that God does let us know what the mark is.. and when it is known… then it is up to us to make the effort not to miss the mark.

It is what Jesus spoke of in his teachings to his followers… that if your hand causes us to sin to cut it off or if your eye causes us to sin to pluck it out. Jesus knew that with sin in their lives they would not be able to enter the kingdom of God. He taught that sin was to be eradicated in the lives of each of his followers and that whatever it was that caused them to go against the knowing that is within them was to be cut off, plucked out, for it would be better to be without those things than to miss out on the kingdom of God.

What we do against what we know in our hearts is a sin to us… and it is up to each of us as Jesus said to cut those things out of our lives… and to take whatever measures necessary not to let them remain and stop us from the peace that comes from a content heart… from the kingdom of God that is to be entered into right now!