And Christianity also just is. It’s not enforce. Just like if you jump off a building you fall due to gravity, if you sin you find yourself in worse and worse situations.
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i would compare this to the latency of effects in physical systems, complex systems are especially good for demonstrating this, and so, yes, actually, these laws of physics even have such late consequences for actions
and frankly, if a person does not consider the possibility that their actions may have a long term effect, they are not competent human beings, they are acting as children
Actions of course have long term consequences. Consequences which can't be predicted or forseen. For example: A single conversation in the hallway of your university can completely change the course of your life.
The fall of the sparrow.
"can't"
no, actually, if you had the full snapshot of the state of the system and you understood the laws that govern its actions, you could
this is a fundamental premise of computer science
Not true, there objectively were times when Christianity did not existed... And to the rest of your comment. Define sin. Is it something society sees as something bad? Sure it will ruin you, your credit and your reputation. But do something the scripture forbids but society does not condemn and you will be fine... Or did you heard of someone getting into bad situations because of wearing linen and wool? Or someone enjoyed a sausage before Easter?
Sin is "to miss the mark".
I'm not sure I understand what that means. Sincerely. Can you please try to rephrase?
Every moral order defines a "mark" or "target" of the most virtuous, perfect human and moral people try to get as close as possible to that mark before they die.
To sin is to miss that mark and the gravity of the sin is defined by how far away from the mark it was.
Virtue is the greater and sin is the lesser.
So it is like in Plato's allegory of a cave. The closer you get to the ideal shape from the projection the better person you are? And the ideal in this case is to live eudaimonic life and hitting all the marks.
And any deviation is essentially a sin.
This is super interesting, because that would mean that someone with very strict morals and high sense for meaningful fulfillment can end up far worse than a person who is just trying to be "a decent person."
Well, "worse".
And part of the Christian "mark" is humility and eschewing self-righteousness and scrupulousity.
So, effective religions have their own internal checks and balances because humans can't hit the mark precisely, by definition, as that would make them into a diety.
Do you mean, that they feel worse about themselves?
That would mean that they are too prideful, probably, and expect superhuman results from a mere human. I suffer from this tyranny of high expectations.
lol idk what to say about a person who doesn't understand that the shadows in the cave are illusions
Thank you for rephrasing. I was really not understanding.
sin literally means to be without
sin semilla "without seed"
in german it's called "schuld" which is a synonym with "debt"
it literally means that your account is in the red
Yes, those are all translations, tho.
>>The word “sin”, as it appears in the Bible, comes from the Greek word Hamartia or the Hebrew word Hata, which both mean “to miss the mark” or “flawed”. The word was used in archery and spear throwing. When a person missed the center of the target, they erred, or “hamartia-ed”. So, as this applies to sin, we should ask, “What is the mark that we are missing?”
And the answer is: The holy righteous perfection of God.<<
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/e2medianetwork/2016/11/wwutt-sin-means-to-miss-the-mark/
well, this imprecision is unavoidable but through science can be reduced (ie, knowing the thing)
so, the essence of the meaning of the word sin is: Error
and promoting error is the business of Satan and his followers
whether they are sledging you when you are taking aim
or inserting rubbish into your data
they are agents of satan
Christ has always existed.
materialists are so boring
technically there must have been some period where there was only the Father though, but i'm not gonna get into the finer points
Because of the Trinity, they have all three always existed as one. Only God knows how God works, tho. Our minds can't comprehend it.
And you can't really say what is first, when They existed before time existed. Outside of time.
so do we, technically speaking, it's only our story that is time bound
So this is going to be a sophism, but we don't want to make the debate boring. If only God knows God and you can't comprehend God, how can you be sure about anything? How can you be sure that Bible is telling the true? What if it is yet another golden calf? What if it is yet another test if you would follow the book or your heart? How can you use something you don't understand and you can never understand in an argument?
You cannot be sure. You take it on Faith, out of Love and that gives you Hope, but the greatest of these three things is Love.
The Father has always had a spirit (Holy Spirit) and has always had wisdom. The wisdom of God is Christ (the Word, Logos).
this is a metaphor though
Our brains can't handle the reality of the Trinity. We only have metaphors.