Would there be sin without God?
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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.
In reply to birdseye
What is your understanding of God?
In reply to Star
In reply to birdseye
Nice. I like that.
Nobody's feelings are hurt here.
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
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
In reply to embsallie
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.
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