What is sin?

 While it has become politically incorrect to talk about sin, the Bible make it clear that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). But what is sin from a biblical perspective?

First, sin is not just murder, rape or robbery. Sin is failing to do the things we should and doing those things that we should not. In short, sin is a word that describes anything that fails to meet God's standard of perfection . Thus, sin is the barrier between you and a satisfying relationship with God. Just as light and dark cannot exist together, neither can God and sin.

Furthermore, sin is a barrier between us and other people. You need only to listen to your favorite podcast to understand how true this is. We live in a time when trouble times never seen before is occurring.

Finally, sin is the deprivation of good. As such, sin is characterized by a lack of something rather than being something in itself. As noted above, sin is a break in relationship to God and others rather than being an ontological substance.

 1 John 3:4-6

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.