What is Sin
Seriously, we tend to either have too wide a scope of it, or too narrow a scope. So what really, constitutes sin? I’ve heard ppl say “despair is sin” or “such and such thing is sin because blah blah”. What I mean to say is.. when its not in the ten commandments. Is it sin free? And since if we have the other 2 great commandments that christ said when ppl asked him which is the greatest commandment, is a failure to follow that sin too? not a failure, but rather, doing something that has nothing to do with that.
Oh man.. Cos i was just thinking.. some people treat everything as sin and want to confront other people. Buying an xbox instead of support ministry, spending 20 mins on your blog when you can be sturying reading + infinity other more “useful” activities (like I am doing now), not going to a church meeting for no good reason. Are these considered sin? If yes, then a whole lot of us are like.. in deep trouble. If not.. whats the big deal? Why the fuss?
I’m supposing that the answer might lie in the area of “things can’t be classified into sin/not sin only” and there exists “morally ambiguous” categories too.
After typing all this, I feel the the saducees who asked Jesus “so, who then is my neighbour?” but honestly the spirit is not what I can get away with.. but.. what should I really pay attention to when ppl say me?
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