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Sin
* All sin is an act of poor judgment
  - punishable by death
  - rooted in unbelief
  - leads to death and the Bible says that all have sinned
* All sins are attempts to fill voids
  - due to the evil soul
  - tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation
* Every sin disordered act which has an effect on the sinner.
* IS sin IS sin.
* Is a concept that was invented by religious leaders.
* Some sins are sins of weakness
  - emerge from delusion, either internal or external
  - have a greater affect on society than other sins
* abounds in the world, but sin has always abounded in the world.
* affects both the body and the mind.
* also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings
  - builds walls between people
  - has the capacity to multiply
  - involves the omission of duty
  - is the cause of the bad things people do to each other
  - kills the body soul and spirit
  - poisonous worm
* alters the ability to have loving relationships.
* always brings suffering to the sinner
  - tension, strife, and conflict
  - ends in violence
  - has consequences for both the present life as well as the next
  - involves some act of disobedience or selfishness
  - means suffering
  - produces death
* always results in death
  - human misery
* applies to every human being.
* are just choices or events
  - personal, and they affect each individual in particular
  - the specific thoughts, words, and actions that sin produces
  - what give a spirit power and freedom to operate
* becomes an unwillingness to become accepting and affirming of any and all behavior.
* begins with a thought, and results in an act
  - being selfish in our heart and results in disobedience in our behavior
  - evil desire
* begins with the internal acts of lusting and creating sexual fantasies
  - thought process and leads to actions later on
* benumbs the hearing and tends to make men deaf.
* blinds the mirror of the soul.
* breakdown of relationship.
* brings about the penalty of pain, suffering, and eternal death
  - corruption, disease, destruction and death into our world
  - death and death brings vanity to man's existence
  - trauma in person's lives
* by-product of faithful worship
  - mortality
* can become a spiritual anesthetic that clouds our reasoning and paralyzes our lives
  - change peoples' minds and personalities
  - give pleasure, but it never produces or leads to happiness
  - kill the soul and deliver the sinner into satanic slavery
  - lead to other sins, and to vices by the repetition of the same sins
* can only grow when it is hidden in the darkness
  - happen if first there is love
* carries an Eternal death penalty
  - the death penalty
* cause alienation between the people
  - the various types of corruption to occur in the land
* causes a dark blot in our souls that alters our thinking
  - all kinds of destruction and division
  - men to either abuse their role as leader, or to abandon it
  - pain, curse, death and judgment
  - sadness in our world
  - slavery, degradation, guilt, and fear
  - stress in many ways
  - suffering and death
* certain defect of action, a lack of proportion, of order, or opportuneness.
* changes our entire lives and perspective of life.
* choice, and if there is no choice then there is no sin.
* comes in many forms.
* complex concept.
* condition before it is an action
  - or a state of being
* condition, a predilection.
* constant in the human race, and so certain patterns of behavior are predictable.
* contagion that is logically prior to any specific act.
* controls every part of man
  - the members of one s body, the deeds of the body
* corrupting, killing, foreign substance in the soul of the individual and the church.
* creates an insatiable appetite that leaves one continually in a state of unfulfillment.
* crime - a felony.
* dark and slavish reality.
* deliberate and willful act of commission or ommission.
* destroys lives and consigns people to eternal misery.
* determines where one is going to spend eternity.
* disease, a moral disease, a disease of the inner man
  - sickness
* divides minds into two halves.
* do differ in their seriousness and are rightly evaluated according to their gravity.
* does terrible things to people.
* dwells in and is manifested in the carnal believer.
* emerges out of a lack of belief in the possibility of positive outcomes.
* entails spiritual disability.
* enters subconscious minds repeatedly creating cycles of regeneration.
* equates to selfishness.
* exacts a penalty and that penalty is death.
* exists apart from law
  - because there divine standard
  - every time a child goes hungry
* exists every time a child is denied a quality education
  - hurt, molested or forgotten
  - in every person
  - only in individuals
* failure to live with godly character and motives.
* faith word.
* filter in our mind that distorts truth.
* first exists in the mind and our heart's desire from an external or internal stimulus.
* form of insanity.
* fruit that comes only from that root.
* give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness.
* goes through every part of our lives.
* great evil because it causes innocent suffering.
* has a death penalty
  - an effect upon the total person, every part
* has many faces
  - heads, like the mythological Hydra
  - no individuality, so that no one can say of it that someone created it
  - spiritual, emotional, social and also physical consequences
  - the power to make prisoners of everyone
  - two effects on every person's life
* hereditary problem and all humans have it.
* horrendous thing that deserves eternal punishment in hell.
* impairs our seeing and hearing
  - the sight, and works toward blindness
* includes our alienation from nature.
* involves a choice or decision that one freely makes
  - sort of infinite guilt because of the infinite dignity of the One offended
  - personal responsibility and has real consequences
* is 'younger' than the goodness of creation
  - Sin is Sin is Sin
  - a. a pervasive sickness in every person
* is about our deepest feelings and motivations
  - accumulated if one gives up truth and tells lies
  - actually an ancient term used in archery
  - also a defilement of one's conscience
  - always a case of failing to put godly wisdom into practice
* is an act of disingenuity and unkindness
  - in-fidelity and unfaithfulness to the covenant responsibility
  - attitude, sins are actions
  - empire wishing to control our lives
* is an evil force
  - that is dangerous because it is deceptive
  - infatuation, a craze
  - infinite thing
  - intruder in the earth
  - invader in the human experience
  - inward inclination
  - offence against reason, truth and right conscience
  - un-natural intrusion into human nature
* is another name for rebellion, and death consequence of sin
  - word for separation, alienation and estrangement
  - any unrighteousness
  - anything that is thought or done that is unloving
  - at the root of all human problems, dilemmas and confusion
  - atoned for by the blood of the lamb
  - basically an act of un-love
  - behavior that prevents a person from living out their potential for human being-ness
* is both personal and communal
  - buried in baptism
  - but an element or attribute of choice or intention, or it is intention itself
  - cancer of the soul
  - caused by self-deception
  - compared to fire in the Bible
  - conceived in flesh before it is born in the light of day
  - condemned on the cross whereas the sinner is condemned in hell
  - dark, destructive, and demonic
  - darkness, and makes dark
  - deceitful and all that continue to live in sin are deceiving themselves
  - declared to be sin
* is defined first in actions
  - from the human point of view as a disordered use of creation
  - simply as ignorance, a veil that needs to be lifted in order to uncover the truth
* is described as sin in one s members
  - in terms of being spiritually dirty
  - more in terms of something that messes our lives up
  - developed through psychological conditioning with power as the positive reinforcement
  - distinguished into that which is common to all men, and the personal sin of each individual
  - dominance, manipulation, control of others, and desires for supremacy
  - done in darkness both spiritual and, many times, literal
  - egotism and selfcenteredness
  - empty calories
  - everywhere, in everyone, and causes people to perish forever
  - evil in the nature of it
  - falling short of the mark
  - greed, injustice, intolerance
  - immorality
  - impossible to cast off by one's self
* is in essence a denial of Godliness
  - the world because death is in the world
  - inherent in humans
  - innate because of our being born in sin and shaped in iniquity
  - institutional as well as individual
  - involved in every divorce
  - lawlessness
  - like a disease that was passed down to all men
  - love that is misdirected
  - lust concieved in the heart
  - mankind's ultimate disease
* is moral and spiritual pollution
  - cancer, spiritual insanity
* is more than breaking a law, it defection from the one who gives the law
  - cheating, lying, immoral behaviour, etc
  - lying, stealing, or living an immoral life
  - mother and father of death
  - much more of a noun than a verb
  - often the cause for a believer having mental problems
  - overcome by confession, repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation
  - part of our inherited nature
  - personal, but it is also social
  - pictured as sitting upon a throne and reigning over mankind
  - powerful and brings death
* is powerful as a desert breath that drinks up all spiritual dews
  - poison in the heart
  - promoted by the most corrupted persons
  - psychological self-abuse
  - rebellion against the highest authority
  - rebelliousness and disobedience
  - rebelliousness, pride and self-interest
  - responsible for human misery
  - self-centered, imperious, indifferent to the welfare of others
  - self-centeredness
  - separation from unity
  - shame and guilt-inducing
* is sin and a murderer is no more guilty than a liar or cheat
  - never brings happiness only unhappiness
  - because man person
  - just as night is dark
  - whenever committed
* is sin, because it hinders and blocks that celebration
  - no matter who, what, when, where, why, or how it is committed
  - plain and simple
  - whatever any mere mortal cares to think about it
  - whether it be physical murder, or spiritual murder
  - slavery, the loss of our freedom
  - social and institutional, as well as personal
* is something external
  - like lying, cheating, stealing, fighting, or disobeying parents
  - man is born with
  - that has passed to all human beings, because all sinned, as the quotation says
  - spiritual cancer - it eats away and destroys
  - spiritual, as much as holiness is
  - still sin and love is still the opposite of sin
  - suposed to enter into humanity through the seed of man
  - that same kind of constant negative force that spoils our best aim at life
* is that which causes suffering
  - destroys life
  - divides life from life and prevents community
  - is self-destructive
* is the act or state of a sinner, as thought is the act or state of the thinker
  - active principle of every division
* is the antithesis of civilization
  - virtue
  - barrier that gets in the way of love
* is the cause of all evils
  - the bad troubles and suffering in our world
  - destruction and death in life
  - our inhumanity
  - trouble in our lives
  - central problem of human existence
  - condition which produces sins as individual acts
  - consort of death, and everywhere there is sin there is death
  - death-power
  - devil's first-born
  - disease of the soul
  - downside of the gift of freedom
  - excrement of the soul, the superfluity or garbage of naughtiness, the devil s vomit
* is the failure to abide by their rules
  - recognize the sacrifice of the cross
  - first negative that is mentioned in the Bible
  - force that moves in the members of our bodies and fights against what is true and good
  - fundamental problem of human life
  - gravest of all evils
* is the great destroyer of man's soul and of society
  - infection of the soul
* is the greatest enemy of mankind
  - tragedy the human family has ever faced
  - impossible that happened
* is the most deadly poison ever to invade our world and our lives
  - wicked thing in the world
  - nature of hell
  - one and only thing of which sinful man is the total cause
* is the only force in subconscious minds
  - thing that demands expiation by blood
  - prison of the spirit
* is the problem in each of our lives
  - of the world
  - punishment for sin
* is the reason for physical death
  - the horror of hell
  - why there is pain, misery, and death in our land
* is the refusal of that gift of life and call to growth
  - to grow, to love, to be loved
* is the result of human agendas
  - ignorance, weakness, and indifference
  - man's own choice
  - strong temptation
* is the root cause of all suffering
  - of all social upheaval
  - seed from which a problem pregnancy grows
  - sinister motivation everybody has for everything they do, a part of human personality
  - stuff that messes with our hearts
  - transgression of The Law
* is the transgression of the ceremonial law
  - law, or lawlessness
  - ugliest thing in the world
  - ultimate bondage, worse then any handicap, physical or mental
  - willful breaking of the law, or rules of conduct
  - work of darkness, and darkness is the wages of sin
* is to be conquered by being made to feel the power of goodness
  - found in every part of our existence
* is transgression of the Torah of Yahweh
  - law but it is failure rather than rebellion
  - transmitted from one generation to another but only by teaching and example
  - truly a bondage leading to death
  - ultimately selfishness
  - unbelief in the revealed Word of God
  - universal because of imitation
* is what causes a soul to be lost
  - feels good to corrupted persons
  - is wrong with the world
  - made it necessary for the natural to be sacrificed
  - whatever obscures the soul
  - willful violation of the laws of morality and religion
* is, for one thing, a preoccupation with self.
* keeps people from praying.
* kind of sickness.
* leads to darkness and eventual death
  - death and destruction
  - judgement and death
  - pain, misery and suffering
* lies at the root of most of society's difficulties today
  - only in hurting other people unnecessarily
* life-dominating force which disrupts hopes, dreams, and expectations.
* lot like the calcified cholesterol that clogs the arteries of the heart.
* means to do bad things.
* mental creation.
* occurs inside the heart and mind of people.
* occurs when one yields to temptation
  - the conscience is violated
* opens individuals and groups to the bondage of demonic principalities and powers.
* part of our nature
  - the internal structure of our lives
* personal act.
* pollutes our souls and destroys our spiritual heart.
* power operating always.
* power, a perversion of good.
* powerful force that leads to death.
* produces a sense of guilt
  - spots, stains and wrinkles in the soul
* provides relief for stress, loneliness, failure.
* queer thing.
* refers to our corrupt nature.
* relational problem.
* reproach to any people.
* return to the law of the jungle.
* returns the sine of the angle in radians.
* rules the world, enslaves and controls people.
* self-centered attitude.
* selfish attitude in our heart.
* separates the sinner from the Savior.
* severing of relationships.
* significant part of the human experience.
* sin, whether big or small, it is still a sin.
* spiritual burden
  - problem, and therefore, it requires spiritual solutions
* state, a condition.
* stems from a psychologically conditioned force in subconscious minds.
* still remains in man's nature after justification and regeneration.
* stirs up all kinds of deep emotions within a person.
* stubbornly pervasive part of the human condition.
* takes on many forms
  - the glory of mankind away and replaces it with death
* tends to total and universal selfishness.
* terminal disease.
* transcends physiological and psychological, because sin originates in the spirit of a person.
* wreaks marriages and destroys lives.
* wrecks nations and homes and individuals.