What is the essence of sin?

[praise_yeshua]

Oh good grief, what does that even mean? In this world, human beings sin. That is it. There is no sin other than that.

It means what I said. Sin existed before Adam was created. Sin didn't originate with Adam.

 

[praise_yeshua]

Before the age of accountability, a child does not sin. Before that, there is nothing the child does that is counted as sin.

Paul said clearly that he was afforded grace because he sinned in the ignorance of unbelief.

1Ti 1:13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Accountability is relative to understanding. There is no context of age.

Every man is judged by what they do with the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

 

[Jim]

It means what I said. Sin existed before Adam was created. Sin didn't originate with Adam.

What you said is pure gibberish!

 

[praise_yeshua]

What you said is pure gibberish!

Not at all. Satan existed before Adam. Satan fell before the creation of Adam. Jesus talked about this in

Luk 10:18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Was Satan the serpent that deceived Eve?

 

[praise_yeshua]

What you said is pure gibberish!

Also. It is my experience that most everyone prefers to blame their sin on Adam. At the very least, they believe that they wouldn't have sinned if were not for Adam.

Such nonsense doesn't create culpability for sin in the individual like it should. I actually see sin worse than most people do. My sins are of my own making. They still are.

 

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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sin​

What, then, is the essence of sin? Sin has three chief aspects: breach of law, violation of relationships with people and things protected by the law, and rebellion against God. The essence of sin, therefore, is not a substance but a relationship of opposition. Sin opposes God's law and his created beings. Sin hates rather than loves, it doubts or contradicts rather than trusts and affirms, it harms and abuses rather than helps and respects.

But sin is also a condition. The Bible teaches that there are lies and liars, sins and sinners. People can be "filled" (meaning "controlled") by hypocrisy and lawlessness ( Matt 23:28 ). God "gives some over to sin, " allowing them to wallow in every kind of wickedness ( Rom 1:18-32 ). Paul, speaking of the time before their conversion, told the Ephesians, "You were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live" ( 2:1-2 ).

What is Sin? Biblical Meaning and Definition

Sin includes a failure to do what is right. But sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people, and ultimately, rebellion against God. Further, the Bible teaches that sin involves a condition in which the heart is corrupted and inclined toward evil. The concept of...

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this fallen physics which God told adam was Death
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the sin realm.

sin.

A foreign land.