Sin

This quote got me thinking. Sin may be different things to different people.

"Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself."
-Susanna Wesley

Originally posted by @dj2becker
This quote got me thinking. Sin may be different things to different people.

"Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself."
-Susanna Wesley

Is this supposed to be a Christian discussion?

Originally posted by @eladar
Is this supposed to be a Christian discussion?

Anyone is welcome to respond don't feel excluded if you do not see yourself as a Christian.

Out of the confines of religion, 'sin' is quite a meaningless term.

Nothing to me is sinful, though many things I would deem immoral.

The term 'immoral' is also quite meaningless if it is only based upon some subjective opinions.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
The term 'immoral' is also quite meaningless if it is only based upon some subjective opinions.

Not within a given society it isn't.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Not within a given society it isn't.

You mean when a larger group of people bully smaller groups to conform.

Originally posted by @eladar
You mean when a larger group of people bully smaller groups to conform.

In your society, perhaps.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Not within a given society it isn't.

Is the standard of morality that you got from your society subjective or objective?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
In your society, perhaps.

In all societies that wishes to enforce morality. In Europe name calling and ostracizing is a common bully technique.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
Is the standard of morality that you got from your society subjective or objective?

Sure, let's pointlessly revisit that old chestnut. 🙄

Originally posted by @dj2becker
Is the standard of morality that you got from your society subjective or objective?

Only 8 posts before you downshift into your nervous tick.

Originally posted by @divegeester
Only 8 posts before you downshift into your nervous tick.

Nervous tick? Maybe. I say it's a RipcordQuestion™

I heard that the word "sin" had a picture associated with it of "missing the mark."
Sin is a missing of the mark on a target.

As if there is a moral target and we are all archers aiming for it in our actions.
To Sin, in this picture, is to miss the bull's eye with the arrow shoot.

Conversely we may know that Jesus Christ hit the exact bull's eye every time throughout His whole life on earth.

Originally posted by @sonship
I heard that the word [b]"sin" had a picture associated with it of "missing the mark."
Sin is a missing of the mark on a target.

As if there is a moral target and we are all archers aiming for it in our actions.
To Sin, in this picture, is to miss the bull's eye with the arrow shoot.

Conversely we may know that Jesus Christ hit the exact bull's eye every time throughout His whole life on earth.[/b]

Is suicide a "sin"?