What does the “Sin” of Bible refer to?
Therefore, just as “sin” came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
– Romans 5:12
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Have you ever play a game that you are focus on someone’s finger, his finger move around and around, you pay concentration of his finger and looking it moves around and around. Suddenly, his finger points upwards, what will happen to you? Your head are following move upwards, the finger directs you moving up.
What does it mean? It’s like the “Sin” are also directing mankind moving.
What is the “Sin“? If we want to know what is the “Sin”, we have to back to the beginning of the Serpent deceived Adam and Eve.
Why Devil want to deceive Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of tree of knowledge of good and evil? It seems that it represents Adam and Eve ‘ACCEPT’ or ‘ALLOW’ Satan to build a symbolic bridge with them. If they eat the forbidden fruit, it is like their mind ‘window’ are opened to Satan, they allow Satan send message(evil minds, sin) to them directly, to affect or change their minds to do evils(sins), that’s why someone say our eyes are the windows of the soul.
So the “Sin” seems referring to the “Evil Mind“.
How did the sin / evil mind come into the world? It was never happened before, and before Adam and Eve ate the fruit the mind(soul) ‘window’ was in locked mode, and Satan couldn’t enter. No doubt, from that moment when they ate the fruit, Satan could send message to all. And Bible said sin entered the world from that time.
Romans 5:12 says “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned”.
How could the sin enter into the world? Bible said it was through one man(Adam). And where did sin come from? It was through Satan.
What is the ‘Sin’? what does it mean? Actually Bible does not explain clearly what is that, but says sin started from Adam and Eve after they eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
What is the difference between the ‘Before’ and ‘After’ they ate the fruit? We see that the evil mind(sin) has come after they ate the forbidden fruit. So probably sin represents evil mind, and it makes people do evil things(sins).
Evil mind occurs in everyone whatever who you are (except Jesus) because our ancestor Adam ate the fruit of tree of knowledge of good and evil, it represents they accept Evil, accept Satan, accept Sin(evil mind) enter the world.
Why Devil Satan doing this? What did he want or gain? Maybe it can bring him the control right of human, directing the mind of minkinds, or gain Power Authority, or something great for him. Please read <Babylon the Great>. In fact, we know little about the Heaven, but we are sure that he brings us pain, disease, war, death… to satisfy his selfish desires and ambitions.
There is an interesting question, why God calls that tree’s name “the tree of knowledge of good and evil”? If someone got the knowledge of good and evil, isn’t it a wonderful thing? It sounds a very beautiful and good name of that tree, right? But it causes human death, then why did God call this name? We believe that, if God called the name “the knowledge of good and evil” of that tree it must be the truth.
Please think about it, will God has any unrighteous or evil thoughts himself? Absolutely no!
Romans9:14 says “What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? Far from it!“
Why can we believe that faithfully?
Because Genesis 35:11 says “God also said to him, ’I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply…’”
Jehovah God says He is Almighty God, that means he CAN accomplish his will by using many different methods. He no need to use some specific methods(such as evil method) but also can ACCOMPLISH his will. God will accomplish his will by using the good method(way), just same as the six creation days he declared “good”.
Does our Almighty God need to use evil ways to accomplish his will? Absolutely not. Our Almighty God has unlimited power and has unlimited ways(methods) to accomplish his will which we are unable to count. He knows the evil way is no good and harmful. He no needs to use it but also CAN accomplish his will, no matter how difficult is it. Because He is the Almighty God, God is good and all His will are good.
He knows what is the Truth and what is really good for us(everyone). So for Him hasn’t any injustice and evil thoughts, even a single bit. Actually, we should avoid talking about evil and Jehovah God together, because He is the Light, He is the Holy Holy Holy. 1 John 1:5 says “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
Let’s think about how Adam and Eve were being created by God. Did they have evil minds? Would God create evil thoughts to them? Absolutely not! For God Himself won’t has any evil minds and He won’t give it to them too. So at the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, they have NO any idea or concept about evil, none of evils but only the goodness and righteousness mind. Then where is the “Evil Mind” come from? Absolutely not from God, yes you know the answer : from “Devil(Satan).
Please imagine when Jehovah God created all creatures, all of them have the righteous and goodness mind, none of evil in the Heaven and the earth . But at a day, started from one of the creatures, please read Ezekiel 28:11-19 verses with allegorical words, and especially verse 15 says,
“You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created UNTIL unrighteousness was found in you.” this verse says one day unrighteousness was found from one of the creatures, and unrighteousness(evil) started from this creature and he is the Father of evil(unrighteousness).
John 8:44 Jesus says “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Let’s think about how can human know the knowledge of good and evil? Firstly, give him the mind that come from God (represents good) to human, for him is doing good, and feel good. Then, another mind come from Devil (represents evil) entered, he will do or feel evils.
Romans 5:12 says “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world…”. When human had done or seen something good and evil, and comparing both of them after a while, he may know what is good and what is evil. For someone who could got the ‘knowledge of good and evil’, maybe using the whole of his life, or may not know even though when he died.
Anyway, after Adam and Eve eaten the forbidden fruit, as the Bible recorded, we don’t see they have gotten the knowledge of the good and evil, but injustice, hatred, killing, wars occurred afterwards so. For our world our society this “complex systematic” to know the knowledge of good and evil, we don’t know how long, maybe more than thousands years, who knows?
Yes, God knows. So why God called that tree “the knowledge of good and evil”? Obviously, He called this name showed us, if Adam and Eve eat the fruit, evil mind(sin) will enter into the world, then they will know the knowledge of evil but are painfully. And finally humans would got the knowledge of good and evil, that will be the final result.
For more please read <The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil>.
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