I would like to share with you this comment I found from a brother named OSHO, about the right meaning of the word sin and this post is titled The true sin against God This post is just a follow-up of the post available below. The Original Hebrew word for sin has been wrongly translated... Its true meaning will pleasantly surprise you! I invite you to read this post until the very end and ponder about my conclusion. The original word sin means - to miss. It doesn’t mean to commit something wrong; it simply means to miss, to be absent. The Hebrew root for the word sin, means to miss. That exists in a few English words: misconduct, misbehavior. To miss means not to be there, doing something without being present there — this is the only sin. And the only virtue: while you are doing something you are fully alert. Other meanings are : selfremembering, being rightly mindful, awareness, To be there! — that’s all that is needed, nothing more. You need not change anything, and even if you try to change you cannot The original Hebrew word for sin is very beautiful. By translating it as “sin,” Christians have missed the very message of Jesus. The original Hebrew word for sin is so totally different from your idea of sin that it will be a surprise to you. The root word means forgetfulness; it has nothing to do with what you are doing. The whole thing is whether you are doing it with conscious being or out of unconsciousness. Are you doing it with a self-remembering or have you completely forgotten yourself? Any action of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful façade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin. It is because of this that Jesus has a tremendously significant saying. He says, “If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body throw into hell.” I will write again what was published above: What is conscience? Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong. Moral judgment may derive from values or norms (principles and rules) which have been learned. (learned= acquired knowledge) In psychological terms conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human commits actions that go against his/her moral values and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions conform to such norms. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based in reason has occasioned debate through much of the history of Western philosophy. Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, with its subject probably learned or imprinted (like language) as part of a culture. Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the voice within and the inner light. Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film. Source: Wikipedia Conscience belongs to learned or acquired moral values since early childhood. I just wanted to pinpoint that our moral values are first learned primarily through interactions between parents and children, interactions in which it is mandatory for parents to be physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually present and involved in the lives of their children. Same for religious beliefs. Faith should never be submitted to acquired knowledge of values. Both are ruled from different spiritual realms. Here, Abraham is a good example that I can use as a reference to illustrate the conflict between conscience and genuine Faith. We are all aware that Abraham overcame his human conscience, when his Faith ruled his learned moral values stored in his human knowledge. Lets take Hebrew 11: 17-19 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Some argue that Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. But Abrahams faith was much more aware Abraham was an overcomer because his faith was the awareness a superior knowledge. Using the branch of the knowledge of good in Abrahams conscience, (the extreme tip of the branch of the GOOD, Satan (his human mind) fought through Abrahams conscience, trying to convince Abraham that killing his son and offering his body in sacrifice was evil. Abraham was aware that human sacrifice was a pagan act of killing one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual (ritual killing). Abraham knew that human sacrifice had been practised in various cultures throughout history and probably even during his era from the nations dwelling around. But Abrahams faith excelled. Why ? Because Abraham received a revelation from God. And Abrahams seed will receive the same revelation, and they will overcome their old serpent flesh and blood. Now, if you don’t understand the real meaning of sin, you are bound to misinterpret the whole statement and Jesus will look too harsh, too violent. Saying, “If you right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away,” does not look like his statement. A man of profound love and compassion, he cannot say this, he cannot be so violent. But this is how Christians have interpreted him. What he means is this: Whatsoever causes you to forget yourself bound to the Everlasting Covenant of God, which had been sealed by an oath. When God made his promise to Abraham, he took an oath to keep it. But there was no one greater than himself to take an oath by. So he took his oath by making an appeal to himself. Now understand: Even if it is your right eye… That is just to emphasize the fact. It is simply a way of talking, an emphasis: “If your right eye causes you to forget yourself bound to the oath of God, then take it out and throw it away.” Jesus was not saying anything that has to be taken literally; it was a metaphor. He was saying that it is better to be blind than to be forgetful of yourself bound to New Covenant, because the blind man who remembers himself is not blind, he has the real eye. But if a man who has eyes forgets himself, what is the use of having eyes? He cannot see even himself; what ELSE can he see? Conclusion: The original word forsin means - to miss. Miss what? The true sin is to not believe Gods oath, which sealed the Everlasting Covenant, and to be forgetful of yourself bound the words of God, which say that through the blood of Jesus, you are as much Holy and Perfect, than God Himself. This is the only sin. All the other sins are belonging to your acquired moral values (the tree of knowledge of good and evil), and are only the the consequence of the true sin.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:54:17 +0000
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