What Is Sin?

Part 1 of 2

Kevin Dewayne Hughes - Tenkidokan School of Theology and Spirituality

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Osho claimed that the word sin was corrupted by Christians and further claims that sin originally meant to forget.  Osho is wrong!

Sin in the English language means to do evil or to break divine law.  It originates with the Old English words synn (noun) and syngian (verb )meaning the same.

The Latin word for sin is peccatum (noun) and piccare (verb), which carries the same idea of evil doing or wrong.  English words derived from this Latin are peccadillo and peccable, which mean a slight sin or propensity to sin, respectively.  The Spanishs word for sin roots from this Latin word; pecado.

We see that the word sons in Latin carries the meaning of guilty and some etymology sources places this as one of the roots of the modern word sin.

The New Testament used in Christianity was written in Koine Greek and it uses seven words for sin.  1) Hamartia - to miss the mark meaning to fall short of GOD's expectations.  2) Hettema - not giving it your full attention meaning to ignore parts of what GOD wants us to do.  3) Paraptoma - falling when one should have stood meaning an unintentional violation.  4) Agnoeema - ignorance when one should have known meaning ignorance of the LAW is not an excuse to violate the LAW.  5) Parakoe - refusal to hear and heed meaning disobedience.  6) Parabasis - to intentionally cross a line - meaning disobeying on purpose.  7) Anomia - lawlessness meaning willfully breaking the LAW.

See Part 2.