The biblical concept of sin is a hoax

[aniN]

Oh, don't worry.. do everything you like to do, then go to Sunday church and make a confession to the priest and all that you did is forgiven.

Oh, and yes: Romans 13 : Submission to Governing Authorities

13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.
6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

[hettleman]

I believe "original sin" refers to our DNA having been manipulated/tainted from our original source of origin. We were once "purebreds" as Jesus was, and now we are mutts! :-) The Bible states that Jesus was the "Only Begotten Son". "Begotten" means direct biological offspring. (Meaning Jesus DNA was pure in all its 12 strands of glory.) If our DNA was manipulated (down to two strands of DNA) then we are no longer "purebreds"....hence..."born into sin". It would explain why they say we need to be "cleansed by the blood of Christ" in order to rise into "God's Kingdom". Once a mutt, always a mutt...never to be a purebred again? Yet, where there is "a WILL" there is a way! Maybe Jesus is the truth, the light and the way because he is the only remaining "purebred"? Maybe HE is the only one who KNOWS where "HOME" is and to whom "Dad" gave the key to the front door? We have forgotten who we are and from where we came because we have been "messed with". We did not "create the sin", we were sinned against and now our DNA is "tainted". Just my thoughts on the subject!

[Akasha]

Posted by OMG (here)
Hmmm...

Here's what the Urantia Book says.

148:4.3 “Evil is the unconscious or unintended transgression of the divine law, the Father’s will. Evil is likewise the measure of the imperfectness of obedience to the Father’s will.

148:4.4 “Sin is the conscious, knowing, and deliberate transgression of the divine law, the Father’s will. Sin is the measure of unwillingness to be divinely led and spiritually directed.

148:4.5 “Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent transgression of the divine law, the Father’s will. Iniquity is the measure of the continued rejection of the Father’s loving plan of personality survival and the Sons’ merciful ministry of salvation.

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-...-jump-result-0


BTW: I'm not a follower of Urantia and only found these passages of interest.

If you read these and interpret such phrases, "obedience to the Father’s will", "unwillingness to be divinely led and spiritually directed, etc", as subjugating your self to some external being or power, then I think that would be an incorrect perspective. Instead it is quite possible that this Father and the spiritual guidance are all YOU in your Highest most comprehensive state. And it is simply referring to your willingness to open yourself up to your Ultimate potential. And when you don't, giving your self instead to lower egos or attributes (idolatry so to speak) you are committing evil, sin or iniquity, depending on the severity of your transgression.

Beautifully put, OMG. When reading the definitions you shared above, I was thinking to substitute Father with love, but since the higher self or, simply, the self is pure love, that'll do for me.

[Ernie Nemeth]

My savoir's name was Levi Swartz. A good little hebrew radical that had his name changed to the fictional character, Jesus Christ. Thus removed from his anscestral roots his name was safe to be worshipped by the new power and authority of Constantinople.
But we know that the bible is just a reworked book of much earlier times and has little to do with the word of The One True God. The true God unifies and accepts all, sinners, saints, archons and ninth-dimensional mud slimes. That God needs no book. Unless you understand the akashic records, that is the only "book" worth "reading".
Still, to each his own.

[OMG]

If a word exist (such as "sin") then it has reality and can not be undone anymore than anything once created can be uncreated. Words are simply concepts that connote or denote a meaning. Just because you don't like a concept doesn't mean you have the power to stop it or transcend away from it. Unless it derives from strictly a subjective mental aberration.