20. What is sin?
Sin is humanity's fallen condition. We are turned away from God and are unable to look to Him for security, meaning, and righteousness. This inner sinful condition results in actual sins of thought, desire, word, or deed that are contrary to God's will as summarized in the Ten Commandments.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.Note: Other names for sin as condition or action are debt (Matthew 6:12), disobedience (Romans 5:19), fault (Matthew 18:15), iniquity (Psalm 38:18), lawlessness (1 John 3:4), rebellion (Deuteronomy 13:5), transgression (Psalm 32:5), trespass (Romans 5:17), unbelief (John 3:18), wickedness (Genesis 39:9), and wrongs (Colossians 3:25).
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