1. What is Sin?

2. “Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.”

3. Sin is anything that undermines or corrupts community

4. Sin = wrong (in)action The Apple Vice lists (Galatians 5:19-21)
Sins of omission (James 4:17)

5. Sin = moral cancer Romans 1-3 (Idolatry)
Sin’s power to overwhelm us (Ephesians 2:1, Hebrews 12:1,)
Original sin / ‘Total Depravity’

6. No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

7. The Consequences of Sin
Alienation from God (God’s Wrath)
Alienation from each other
The Corruption of Society
Death (Genesis 2:17, 3:3-4, 19 and Romans 6:23)
Is this a good explanation for the problems of the world and your own life?

8. What is Sin?