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Is sin just a man made bunch of hooey, invented for men to control others actions out of pure hatred of freedom?

Update:

And if so, who's up for an orgy?

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  • 6 years ago

    No, it was invented for men to control others out of trying to keep them in control, before there were courts or police. But yes, it is indeed a man made bunch of hooey.

  • 6 years ago

    They were developed for societal controls but not out of hatred. Religion and government were once one and the same. Rules for a stable and safe society are necessary when populations become more concentrated. Hunter-gatherers in small bands don't have nearly as many rules but they still have some.

    Sin as in an offense against gods is a load of hooey since gods don't exist.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You have to be remarkably naive to not see evil in the world. If you accept evil exists it is easier to accept that much of it is man-made than it is for atmospheric carbon. Man-made evil is sin.

    Proving you are free is a religious paradox. You may willfully oppose the teachings of God proving it and enslaving yourself to sin. You can escape the slavery of sin but be left with ambiguity that you are doing this by restricting yourself to obeying God, an apparent lack of freedom.

    Nope. Not hooey. Not easy to demonstrate conclusively that you are free, either.

  • Jim V
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    If we take your statement as true - that the concept sin only serves to control "others actions" - and assume nothing is actually sin then should we not also say that nothing is wrong?

    So, if I steal your cell phone there is no sin (or wrong) committed?

    If someone sleeps with your spouse, no sin (or wrong) is committed?

    Somehow I think that the attempt to make sin passé is to make everything permissible in the name of "freedom".

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Moses imposed a law on the Israelite people. It was imposed on the people by the priests at the tabernacle/temple of Jerusalem and temple guards. The violation of the law of Moses used to be sin. For each sin, Moses prescribed the punishment as well. You can read the list of sins and the punishments in the first 5 books of the Bible. The punishments ranged from death and amputation to atonement. Atonement is a fine paid by the people to the temple/priests, the quantum usually as determined by the priests. We are free from the law of Moses since 70 AD, when the temple of Jerusalem fell and no priest or temple guard left to impose the law on the people.

  • Moi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No.

    In NT Greek the word for sin is an archery term for missing the target. It refers to human imperfection.

    So unless you are perfect God - and you're not - and you can hit the bullseye on a target every single time - which you cant - then you are imperfect. And you are a sinner.

    1Jo 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

    Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory (perfection) of God

  • Doug
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Sin is a religious concept, used mostly by the heads of organized religion to control their congregants. In the Bible, the actual words in Hebrew or Greek that were translated into our English "sin" have meanings of "to miss" or "to miss the mark." The idea is more one of being off the target or off-center.

  • User
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Yes, that's it.

    The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is purely the result of a hatred of freedom.

  • Archer
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Sin is man's concept for one requires a god to be able to sin and mankind created all of the gods.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Of course.

    As for the orgy thing, you can count me out.

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