sin

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sin (67:7sec) (89:2sec). See also confession; error; evil; forgiveness; guilt; iniquity; rebellion (spiritual); repentance; shame; sinners
among primitives
belief sickness was punishment for (90:3.8)
community calamity regarded as punishment for tribal s. (89:2.4) (136:2.1)
penalty for s. was death (89:2.2)
s. made natural death logical (89:2.2)
s. was ritual, not rational; transgression of taboo (70:11.4) (84:4.8) (89:2.2-3)
cannot prevail against kingdom of heaven (157:4.5)
dealing with sin
believers should not worry much about punishment of (188:4.10)
cannot be entertained when no opening for evil (43:4.9)
faith is effective armor against (53:8.8)
go forward in righteousness or retrogress into (156:2.6)
mercy requires wrongdoer have sufficient time to formulate deliberate attitude regarding (54:5.2)
prayer mobilizes soul to withstand (196:0.10)
quickest final cure is full disclosure (54:5.9-12)
summary suppression of Lucifer rebellion would have tripled number led astray (54:5.12)
voluntary repentance of, cleansing from, all known s. (150:5.5) (156:2.7)
defined as
attitude of person toward reality (67:7.4)
conscious choosing to oppose spiritual progress (67:1.4)
conscious wholehearted identification with evil (54:3.2)
deliberate transgression of divine will (14:2.9) (75:4.3) (89:10.2-3) (148:4.4,6) (170:2.23) (186:5.7) (188:4.5)
despicable; make no excuse for (131:3.3,5)
failure to perceive obligations of cosmic citizenship (118:7.4)
hated by God and Jesus; Jesus is ruthless with s. (2:6.8) (100:7.11,14) (147:5.9) (159:3.9) (161:2.6)
honest doubts are not s. (102:1.1)
immature choosing willfully endorsed (3:5.15) (54:0.2) (130:1.5-6)
inevitable if creature is to be free (54:0.2) (54:3.1) (75:8.6-7) (118:7.3-4)
isolated (56:10.14)
not a person (2:6.8)
not part of God’s consciousness (174:1.4)
originating in misuse, distortion, and perversion (111:6.3)
prostituting divine talents for selfish gain (136:6.9)
purposeful resistance to divine reality (67:1.4) (67:7.4)
requiring insincerity (53:2.5)
saying what is good but not doing it (175:1.8)
suggests abject spiritual poverty (67:1.5)
urge of self and spurious personal liberty; disregard of fraternal obligations, blindness to cosmic relationships (53:0.1)
deliver us from sinful transgression (144:5.18)
does God choose to foreknow s.? (3:3.4)
does not indicate fault in creatorship (35:9.7)
effect of sin
always deleterious to a family (54:5.5) (54:6.3-4)
creates dead level of evil inertia (182:1.8)
does not alienate God’s affection (3:1.12)
ends in pain (131:3.5)
fatal only when it is attitude of whole being (67:7.4-5)
greatest punishment for s. is loss of existence (2:3.2,5)
habitual s. easily becomes iniquity (67:1.6)
inherently suicidal (2:3.5) (53:9.8)
innocent children often share in consequences of parents’ follies (75:5.6)
justice demands adjudication of every default (39:1.8)
law of God destroys (2:6.8)
light which saves if accepted, condemns if knowingly rejected (162:5.3) (180:3.2) (184:1.5) (185:7.2)
man can reject survival by s. (111:1.9)
may evolve if self becomes proud and arrogant (111:6.2)
no person suffers vital spiritual deprivation because of another’s s. (67:7.4-7) (188:4.3,5)
personal consequences of s. of concern only to Deity and individual sinner (67:7.1)
repercussions are inevitable and collective (67:7sec)
repercussions of Adam and Eve’s default (75:5sec)
retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment (67:7.6)
separates sinner from communion with God’s spirit (5:1.10)
sooner or later punished (148:5.3) (148:6.3)
soul-destroying (67:7.1)
torments indwelling gift of God (3:1.5)
wages of s. is death (46:8.4) (53:9.8)
way of transgressor is hard (53:9.8) (75:6.4)
examples (153:3.5)
forgiveness of sin. See forgiveness: divine forgiveness
glamor, fascination, and intoxication of committing (186:1.6)
has never occurred in Havona (14:2.9)
if false shepherd were blind, he would have no (165:2.3)
Nalda was more sinned against (143:5.8)
often appears to prevail (194:3.2)
original sin doctrine q.v.
pleasant adjustment to paths of (75:2.4) (139:12.5)
possibility of default is opportunity for loyalty (3:5.12)
proves existence of free will (54:4.3)
Spirit of Truth illuminates difference between s. and righteousness (180:6.2)
who convicts Jesus of s.? (162:7.4)

Cross-references

See forgiveness: divine forgiveness
See also confession
See also error
See also evil
See also forgiveness
See also guilt
See also iniquity
See also rebellion (spiritual)
See also repentance
See also shame
See also sinners

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