May 1, 2002
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There is a huge storm heading my way. Lightning, thunder, tornadic activity. So if I don't make it around to visit everyone's site this evening, you'll know it was cause my electric is out.
I had a couple questions on my mind today, one is really important and the other is just nagging at me.
First, several people have commented lately that they don't believe in sin. That got me thinking about trying to define "sin." Without a dictionary (I already looked it up and that was less than helpful) and without using the word "sin" - how would you define it?
And the really important question - when you are alphabetizing your DVD's - do movies that start with a number come before movies that begin with the letter "A" - or do you file them in the place you'd put them if you spelled out the number. (Does 101 Dalmations get filed in the front - or in the 'O' section?)
Today was a good day. Now I'm going to light some candles and hope that tonight is a good night.
Comments (22)
I think there is sin, just not a Satan (other than the accuser in Job). And organize my DVDs?! Surely you jest! If some wild hair overtook me and I did, they would be organized by type, not alphabetically.
numbers come before letters in the alphabetical world. sin sin sin.... hm.. something that is determined by the individual, in a sense that they know when they are doing something that is not right. conscience reminds them.
you knew I'd say something like that, hm? and my granny lives in Decatur, Alabama. I have no idea who that preacher is you named, lol. That was the first time I'd ever watched a service full through on tv. Not too shabby, really, but lots I disagreed on. Wisely kept my mouth shut, of course.
oops, hope you don't get any of that tornadic weather!
Number titles go in numerical order before the A's.
Sin...lots of ways to go with this one. Tonight I'm going to go with: The name applied to behaviors one wishes to designate as counterproductive.
Well, you have the DVD answer already. Sin....the usual definition I got was, if you think it is wrong, it is sin to you...but that doesn't really cover it in my book, as babies, for example, have no concept of sin, yet are considered "sinners" in many religions. So, I think I'd have to add more than that. How about...Sin is everything that is contrary to the teachings of Christ, and anything that you feel is wrong, or that inhibits another's walk with Christ...or chance to walk?
I consider it a major triumph when they are all picked up and put on a shelf! lol I would put 101 Dalmations in the beginning of the 'D' section.
Sin - tough to put into words. Something that deliberately and maliciously causes pain to another person, physical or emotional; when your guts clench up and tell you "this is a bad thing to do". It's hard to give it words, which is probably why the dictionary was of so little help to you!
You are so funny about the DVD questions! I put my number ones before the A's but I have the movie "Seven" and I put it under the S's because the number was spelled out.
As far as the definition of sin - I think it would be anything you believe to be bad in your own life.
The Apostle James said, "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin (James 4:17) Another Apostle described sin as "all unrighteousness" (1 John 5:17)
Another great argument for the existence of sin is found here:
http://scriptures.lds.org/2_ne/2/13#13
I hope your candles are burning bright and you're having a good night!
It's been my experience that numbers come before letters (in the programming world as I've experience it at least), and 101 Dalmations would not go under "O". I have seen letters before numbers, but I've also seen 10 come before 9! The idea in sorting is that the first character of each string of letters/numbers gets sorted first for all strings. then the 2nd character and so on and so on. So the first character of 10, "1", comes before the first character of 9, "9". Bottom line, do it how ever it pleases you. It's all just preference after all.
As for sin, I don't believe in it either. In theory I don't believe in good or bad either. It's that "thou shalt not judge" thing that I can't get past
You have so many they NEED to be alphabetized?
No such thing as sin.
Numeric numbers, like 101 Dalmations, would come before the letter A. Anything with a spelled-out title, like, "Three's Company" would be alphabatized (under T, for example). Not that anyone owns a DVD of Three's Company, I'm just saying.
Sin? Sin is an act that violates your belief of what you think God wishes for you to do on the earth. If you think God wants you to not lie, steal, or kill people and then you do it anyway, knowing God wouldn't want you to, then that's a sin. If you're just some savage raised by wolves in the jungle and you steal food from an anthropologists' camp to survive, but you don't know about God or believe that God disapproves of that sort of behavior, than it's not a sin. Interesting debate, thanks.
What is sin ....... HHHmmmmmm ........
Sin is when you lock yourself in your bathroom and eat ALL the Baskin Robbins Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream without sharing with your spouse and kids. That is sin ..... I am probably going to burn for it.
well when I worked at the video store the numbers went last - after the z movies... that is the way I usually see them in SunCoast Video too. As for sin... depends... I mean Hitler thought he was perfect... If we stick to the golden rule and the 10 commandments then it narrows down what sin is and isn't but I think it's gotten a lot more sticker to narrow down.
batton the hatches and...
sail on... sail on!!!!
Alphabetizing...you've got to be joking...just put it where you'll remember it's place! About sin? There is the concept of 'original sin' which is the natural state of man without God's grace and the concept of 'sin' as doing what is contrary to God's laws. I don't think that it has to do with 'what feels right' or not...conscience is a delicate gift which can be silenced. When we have lost the concept of absolute morality (from God) and replace it with situational morality, then the concept of sin becomes very subjective. Spot
Sin . . . hmmm. I'd describe it as disobeying God, either by doing something he doesn't want us to do or by not doing something he does want us to do.
As for organizing your DVD's . . . if you were to put the list in a computer and alphabetize them the numbers would come before the letters.
I really like what Paul said in Romans 14:40 about sin:
14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food[2] is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
What is wrong, or sin, for one person is not necessarily sin for another.
Take for example someone goes out into a field and viciously and cruelly kills a cow (I'm from KY, just play along). This person killed the cow not because they were hungry or needed the skin for warmth, but because of some sick and perverse desire to kill. That would be sinful in my book and that person would surely reap the consequences of such an act sooner or later.
Now take a butcher who goes into a field, gets a cow, kills it, butchers it, and sells the meat to the grocery store. It's the same act, killing a cow, but because of the state of mind that he, the butcher, was in it was not a sinful act for him. No reaping for this good man and his concious is clean.
Numbers always come before letters in alphabetizing. Otherwise it's sinful, no matter what anyone says.
I've always defined sin as an act that moves you away from God. It can be a traditional biblically listed sin or a psychosomatic sin like a prude who holds hands with a person of the opposite sex. Sin is not the breaking of some spirtualized unwritten law but the act of moving away from God. But I'm not much of a thelogian and that's just my definition.
I think sin is too tied up in a dis/obedience dialectic to be of much use. I prefer "morally wrong." That way, you can be a little more honest that what you otherwise call sin is a violation of morality... whose morals, that's another question. I'm into subjectivity, myself... my morals. But that's insufficient verification for others.
As a professional word freak, I have to say that sin was originally an old German word which meant "to miss the mark" it was a literal archery term as it was originally used. The word used in the new testament means essentially the same thing in the Greek.
The only question is, who sets the mark?
as for alphabetizing, my only thougt is, if you decide to ignore the numbers for your DVD's ignore all of them. 101 Dalmations definitely does not belong in the O category. lol!
KB
filed under "D" for dogs! or Disney!
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