Posted: Sep 19, 2017 6:06 pm
Nothing more and nothing less.
Just?
Flesh out your position. Why call it 'sin'?
The same reason we use any class. Efficient sorting and such. It's handy to mind how you dress your bits.
While one could call any mistake a sin because it's essentially just pointing out you're a bad spear thrower ...:
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The word derives from "Old English syn(n), for original *sunjō... The stem may be related to that of Latin sons, sont-is guilty. In Old English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘offence, wrong-doing, misdeed'".[3] The English Biblical terms translated as "sin" or "syn" from the Biblical Greek and Jewish terms sometimes originate from words in the latter languages denoting the act or state of missing the mark; the original sense of New Testament Greek ἁμαρτία hamartia "sin", is failure, being in error, missing the mark, especially in spear throwing;[4] Hebrew hata "sin" originates in archery and literally refers to missing the "gold" at the centre of a target, but hitting the target, i.e. error.[
I think here the context was meant to be religious, which points out what bucket of mistakes we're pointing to. Those mistakes that are, what people imagine, the God they imagine, finds to be unacceptable. Need I say more?
Even if you don't think there's a purpose, you can still make decisions.
Wasn't classical free will constructed in the context of purpose?
But I'm not so keen on notions of the purpose, as I usually find multiple use for the bits I find hanging around.