WHAT IS SIN?

When we talk of SIN are we talking about a MORAL issue or a POWER entity?

I have read a number of books about the subject specifically from sociology, anthropology, theology and philosophy; I have heard and listened to speakers about the topic and all have biased both their understanding and definition of what sin is to morality.

While this is largely so and quite acceptable to elementary thinking which draws identity from behaviour and hardly distinguishes the two, it matters that able wo/men like us extend our knowledge beyond social comforts.

Sin is a mysterious power. I use the term ‘mysterious’ to acknowledge my limitedness and keep it in perspective so that am balanced to know when to KNOW TO BELIEVE and when to BELIEVE TO KNOW (every good philosopher and Theologian ought to be conversant with these two modes of epistemology).

To better understand SIN AS A POWER, allow me to address it from the POINT of Theism where the being addressed as GOD has no beginning and no end and that being creates ex-nihilo into existence. This being was not contested until what philosophy and Theology have termed as SIN surfaced.

While God creates out of nothing {whatever God creates is brand new and it was known nowhere else in the entire universe, time and space apart from his mind, since he knows in all tenses=God is omniscient}, SIN, on the other hand, is a power that eats into NOTHINGNESS and MEANINGLESSNESS all that what God has put into place and existence.

Note that there are two NOTHINGNESS discussed here:

1. The NOTHINGNESS from which God creates and
2. The NOTHINGNESS to which Sin eats creation into.

My reader here must understand that the danger of this power known as SIN is that its NOTHINGNESS is one outside the omniscience of God.

The story that theology investigates through Jewish and all the Mesopotamian world cultures’ realities and mythologies as edited and presented in what we know as the Old Testament, to begin with, therefore is one in which this God seeks to conquer this power (SIN) and eliminate it to its own goal a.k.a NOTHINGNESS (OBLIVION).

For now, I have not referenced any verse for as a Theologian am terrified with the carefree application of the texts themselves given what I know and don’t know about them.

For now, I wanted to establish that SIN is a COSMIC/UNIVERSAL POWER that contests the DIVINE POWER in the same scope, its moral definition is consequential and therefore not definitive but prescriptive of what SIN is.

If we agree on this, then I will attempt the Biblical narrative about the case and if we disagree on this definition and understanding of what sin substantially (ontologically) is, then my hands will be tied to even dare the Biblical philosophy and of sin with a prescriptive knowledge of sin.

God bless you I invoke Truth, Reason, and Faith
Priest Isaiah-White
iTiS Well of Worship Fellowship (John 4:24)
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