I still think the whole conversation is muddy without clarifying what “sin” is. God “cannot sin.” What does that mean? Disobey himself? Perform particular act that is on a list of “forbidden acts” somewhere? “Fall short of his own glory,” whatever that means? What exactly would “God sinning” mean and look like?
Commanding that children or any people at all be sacrificed to appease him … Commanding genocide… Taking delight in torturing people forever… Or at all. Just a few things off the top of my head.
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I think we are always going to be in muddy waters when trying to include God in a definition of Sin.
God is good and that will prelude Sin which clearly is not good.
Richard
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Those are examples. That’s not a “definition.” What qualifies those things as “sin”? Beyond “I think this is bad and I don’t like it.”
Since I haven’t read nearly all the prior stuff in this thread, so this may be rehashing some discussion. But a trivial quick definition would be “missing the mark”, the mark being whatever is loving, meaning that which promotes present and long term flourishing of life. Chaos, or that which undermines long term stability of life and community might be another good description, almost at a definitional level.
Since I as a Christian believe that God is and must be good, I agree that there is no question of God sinning. So my flippant prior post was entirely a criticism of a god made more in the (fundamentalist) image than the actual God of Christ.
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