What is Sin?

We all know the definition of sin, or do we?  In today's environment of accepting everything as acceptable, it is hard to determine what is sin anymore.  The ultimate measurement of what is seen as good or bad is one that is unchanging throughout history.  We should check our every action against God's ideal, not the human's thought of what is good or bad.

Is there anyone in the world whose righteousness is complete and perfect for all eternity? Who can be proud of his or her justice before heaven and earth? No such person exists. Is there anyone who, after finding a religion, has attained a self that will never deviate from the eternal way? You cannot confidently answer Yes. No one has such integrity that he or she can be eternally and inseparably united with Heaven’s principles. (4:135, March 30, 1958)

God is good; therefore human beings should naturally be good. However, we are people with many

complications and impurities; we are unable to be good. Thus, there is a large gap between the God of goodness and us humans. When mud or grease sticks to your clean clothes, you want to immediately wash it out or even cut it off, because you hate to see it. God feels the same way when He sees these dirty humans clinging to the hem of His garment. You do not need to know the Bible to realiz that we humans are stained.

What is sin?

 

It is what emerges from self-centered living and not living for the sake of others. Why is stealing wrong? A thief steals out of his personal desire—the wrong of the act begins there.

What is wrong with stealing a dress from a big department store, where the department store has insurance and lots of money? That dress has value imparted by the people who invested their sacrifice and service in making it. Thus the dress has public value. Stealing it is a sin, because taking something without paying for it nullifies its value.

 

We have to recognize and abide by three immutable laws: The first law: Do not defile the blood lineage, even at the point of death. The blessed blood lineage, bequeathed through God’s love and life, must not be contaminated by actions immersed in the habitual patterns of the fallen world…

The second law: Do not infringe upon human rights… Whether female or male, black or white, everyone is equal… Violation of this is the second of all sins. The third law: Refrain from stealing money or misusing public funds for selfish purposes.

What is sin? People think sin is to disobey God’s word, but in truth, sin is to make any condition by which Satan can accuse us. While it is wrong not to believe the word of God, it becomes a sin when there is a condition upon which the enemy can grab hold of us. Hence, once we transgress the law, not even God can do anything about it.
 

The Fall meant that Adam and Eve, who should have become one with each other centering on God, instead, became one with the archangel Lucifer, who was a mere servant of God. Instead of inheriting God’s lineage, human beings inherited the servant’s bloodline. Therefore, no matter how much fallen people call God “my Father,” they do not feel it as true to life.
 

The family created by the relationship between fallen Adam and Eve had no relationship to God. That family became the root of God’s deep sorrow, and the base through which the enemy Satan could claim his rights and exercise his authority over humanity. One man and one woman caused the Fall, but its effect was not limited to that couple only. It extends throughout the cosmos and holds influence throughout all of human history.
 

We human beings are still slaves to the fallen nature that we inherited from our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. We have not escaped that yoke. This is evidenced by the confessions of saints and sages. Although they spent their entire lives in fasting and abstinence and unceasingly pursued paths of incredible suffering, they invariably confess that they could not root out the desires of the flesh before they had to leave this world.  Their confessions remain as pitiful cries to their disciples who still insist on following in their footsteps.

The human tradition of love, as it has been passed down through history, is evil. It is sinful and unacceptable to God. It is the enemy of God. Of all sins, fallen love is the by far the worst; it is the sin God abhors the most.

What is fallen love?  Loving, lusting and having sexual relations outside of God's dominion.  Those who indulge in fallen love are God’s worst enemies, whom God abhors the most. Unless we correct the ways of love, God will always treat it as a sin and those who engage in love as enemies, are bound to perish.  It is only natural that they perish.

Have you seen Pompeii in Italy?

Because of its decadent and immoral social life, the city was destroyed by instant calamity. Sodom and Gomorrah, too, were destroyed for the same reason. The Roman Empire, too, perished for the same reason. Looking at this historical evidence, America will also surely perish unless she repents and repudiates its immoral way of love.

This text comes from World Scripture II, from the section "Sin".

This thick book lines up philosophers, scientist, artist and the four main relgious text pertaining to certain subjects to show how God has worked through certain time periods to give us the same truths. The richly textured book covers indepth the author's teachings, Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon along with the other text and took him 50 years of research to write it. The second volume was released to the public in 2010.