What is 'sin' ?:

Any unrighteousness can be called Sin.

m not into it!!!!coz i dont know itz meaning!!!!!

Sin is mostly a term that is used by religions. In the Christian faith, it simply means to disobey the master (God.)

If sin simply means to disobey God, one must have direct contact with God and that is not possible, therefore, religions try to figure out what God wants them to do by reading a 2000 year old book that has been rewritten and translated many times.

I prefer the terms right and wrong.

I actually like the word Sin...it drips with decadence. Why people will take a lovely word like Sin and turn it into something that is feared is beyond me. It's sinful i tell you....sinful!!

Sin means to transgress the law. Whichever law that may be. We just no longer use that word in our language/culture of the world today. Speaking outside of even "religion". When someone breaks a law, that is a sin. It is a "sin" because it is a transgression of the law, of man's law.

That is interesting.

I have another theory about the origin of that word. If you look at the world history you will find a history of the practice of slavery. With slavery, one man owns another and if the slave disobeys the master the master has the option to kill him. This it true in history, because slaves were taken in war when killing the enemy was expected.

The term "mercy" comes from sparing the life of the enemy and instead taking him as a slave. That the slave's life was spared means that the master has the power of life and death over the slave.

If the slave rebels, or disobeys he is killed.

The wages of sin is death to the slave. The sin is disobedience.

It is also interesting that religions were created by man and these traditions weaved their way into the religions, placing God as the master and mankind as the slaves.

Willing slaves are called servants and are taken care of, even paid for their services so that they can live and reproduce.

We humans are descendants of a long tradition of slavery and we are still slaves. We just don't realize it.

The remnants of the masters exist in the monarchy where commoners bow down to the Queen or look up to the royal family as if they were something special.

The way I look at it a sin is a direct action with malice to hurt another human being.

I agree!
All unrighteousness is sin:
I John 5:17

Aye, but that is all the same as I was saying. Again, it's a difference in culture and time period in how/why the word is used and or not used any longer.

Sin is transgression of the law eg., breaking of the law. It is just in this day and age, not a word commonly used for our "wordly" laws, but nevertheless is not specifically secluded to just God's law.