Finals: Sin

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  • Hatta- missing the mark, this stresses that sin is a willful rejection of God's known will.
  • Pesha- means rebellion,  shows how, in sinning, human persons reject God and His love.
  •  Awon - means iniquity or guilt,
    • refers to the way sin twists and distorts the sinner’s inner being.
  • Sin is never acted upon with the absence of human choice. A person commits a mistake as a deliberate choice to defy standards.
  • When we sin against those in need by failing to act compassionately toward them, we ignore Christ himself.
     
  • “Closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God”
  • Sin ruptures our relationship with God and also with other members of the Body of Christ
  • Old Testament Hebrew Terms pertaining to sin: Hatta, Pesha, Awon
  • Anomia - means lawlessness
    • stresses that sin consists in a spirit of rebellion and contempt for God and His law.
  • Adikia – means justice
    • it  emphasizes that sin is a refusal to accept God and His reign revealed in Christ and to live in the justice that God has given
  • 1. Skotos - darkness
    • shows that sin is an opposition to the truth of God, to Jesus Christ --- who is the way, the truth, and the life, to one’s fellowmen/women, and to the truth of being a human person
  • NATURE OF SIN
    •  Sin separates human beings from God.It is a person’s failure to respond to God’s invitation and love.
    Ø It breaks one’s relationship with Him.
    Ø It traces itself to the abuse of human freedom.
    Ø It is through the act of turning away from God that sin exists and continually persists.
  • 1. Sin as the Absence of Goodness in an Action:
     
    action should always aim towards what is good
    • once the nature or the intention of an action lacks goodness then sin enters into the scene
  • Nature of Sin
    1. Sin as the Absence of Goodness in an Action
    2. Sin comes in various forms depending on its gravity.
    3. Sin of Commission and Omission
    4.  The Three-Fold Dimension of Sin
  • The Church classified sin as either venial or mortal.
  • The act of sinning, willfully deviating from what is required of an individual affects the individual three-fold – personal, social and transcendental.