@SavoirFaire I’m aware that the concept of sin is wrapped around some sort of divine law. Each religion has their own name for the term sin as well as a result of this.
I’m not entirely sure if I believe in a god per se, but rather a different version of what’s termed as naturalism. I’m answering the question based on my own definition of sin, because I suspect we all have what’s termed as a spirit (though I prefer to call this an etheric copy), and that our mind isn’t solely a brain function. I’d always figured that if anything really exists, or any phenomena is real, no matter how bizarre it seems to us, that this would be a natural way the universe operates. No magic or miracles required.
My definition of sin is based on the above, and since I think it’s likely most religions have gotten at least some things right, that it’s very possible that sin has been misinterpreted as the result of rudimentary and biased minds in an ancient time. According to both secular afterlife research, and that of many Spiritualists, what’s termed as ‘sin’ isn’t really a transgression against some supreme entity, but rather a spiritual vibration affecting each spirit’s condition upon entering the afterlife dimensions. Sin lowers one’s spiritual vibrations,and as a result this affects each spirit’s living conditions in realms where mind literally creates its environment since these are more the less thought realms.
I don’t want to get too deep here, and obviously we don’t agree with each other on anything I’ve written here, but it’s the basis of my answer for whether I believe in sin or not, and then attempting to explain why I do. First I had to describe my definition of sin in order to do this.
@ibstubro I don’t take too much seriously on here. I expect many of the reactions I get since it appears I have much less in common with most of the progressives on here than even many of the conservatives do, despite the fact that I classify myself as a progressive. I never expected to be popular on here, but I do like to learn why people think the way they do, and this is true for people of all political stripes, philosophical stances and religions.