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birdseye 2017-03-06 08:52:04 

Would there be sin without God?

 
black 2017-03-06 09:15:43 

In reply to birdseye

All cultures have moral codes and breaking of those codes would be considered bad. You can call it what you want.

 
Star 2017-03-06 10:01:02 

In reply to birdseye
What is your understanding of God?

 
birdseye 2017-03-06 10:12:54 

In reply to Star

What is your understanding of God?
That is an enormous question – not sure I have an encompassing answer ------- how about this try – God is the entity that sin alienates/separates man from ------

 
embsallie 2017-03-06 10:15:59 

In reply to birdseye

Nice. I like that.
Nobody's feelings are hurt here.

 
pelon 2017-03-06 10:40:48 

YES.

morality and/or sin exist with or without a deity present in cultures. Strict religious adherents confine morality to a FIXED code from the god(s), yet both believers and non-believers accept that morality is defined collectively, therefore can change over time. This "flux" creates spiritual ambiguity.

Context: Conscience and culture DEFINE sin. From the core of that context, most religions use a well defined structure to outline sins, where the pinnacle of perfection is a mythological Deity/Deities.

The extrapolation here is that absence of sin is not possible, as perfection is in the gods....

Notes: see Buddhism, Jainism and other non-deity religions

 
Oilah 2017-03-06 11:02:31 

In reply to birdseye

Saw the first episode of "Believer" on CNN last night. Reza Aslan goes to different locations and talks with people of different faiths. Last night's episode had some wild scenes with an Aghori man...worth watching

 
black 2017-03-06 11:09:29 

In reply to embsallie

Nice. I like that.
Nobody's feelings are hurt here


It's never my intention (or anyone else) to hurt anyone's feelings but if the truth hurts, so be it.