Does sin exist?

What Sinpoder said

Sin is only as valid as the people you associate yourself with make it seem, or the way you think. I do not believe in biblical sin, nor do I believe in 'normal' sin - as it is subjective to what is morally right and wrong. If someone did something wrong, I wouldn't call that a sin because it's against my moral code. I would say it's fucking stupid or degrading, but I wouldn't go as far to say they're sinning.

Since I posted this thread up, I've found out some interesting things.

For example, human beings do have universal things that they can consider wrong without any precept of what is good or bad. If I give you a hand up off of the ground and then fall on my butt right next to you and you don't move to help me... There is definitely something inherently wrong with that.

Basically, if you get bit by a mosquito, you go to scratch the place you were bit. It feels good. However, later, it hurts. That is a truth that can be accepted by everyone. There are actually things that set baselines for ALL PEOPLE, so therefore the concept cannot be purely subjective and must be taken account of.

Kylekaotikk wrote:Sin is only as valid as the people you associate yourself with make it seem, or the way you think. I do not believe in biblical sin, nor do I believe in 'normal' sin - as it is subjective to what is morally right and wrong. If someone did something wrong, I wouldn't call that a sin because it's against my moral code. I would say it's fucking stupid or degrading, but I wouldn't go as far to say they're sinning.

Yep.

I agree with Kyle too.

I'd like to voice in; yes.

In terms of religion, yes. The Bible in many forms of Christianity and Judaism is considered to be taken literal. As such, anything that would defy the ten commandments literally, will be considered sinful. It also says that humans are born sinful, despite not necessarily breaking any commandment upon birth. As such, the Bible may contradict itself, or, it must be considered that the ten commandments isn't the only thing that mustn't be broken to be sinless. Furthermore, there are the 7 sins. If any act related to incurring Wrath, bearing Envy, acting Prideful, being Lazy, Inacting greed, feeling lustful, or acting Gluttonous is done by a person, they are doing sin. However, in catholic religion there are classifications of multiple sins. In many other religions (or ways of life) such as Buddhism, they instead have a different concept (karma) which can be related to sin, but works differently. As sin is a concept, or can be considered the term that defines acts that defy the absolute authority. With that, sin is very real and apparent. Now that I think about it, I could've just skipped to the last 2 sentences to make my point :/