Sin Defined
Professor Hugh Nibley once noted that the kingdom of God cannot endure if it indulges even the smallest sin: “The slightest taint of corruption means that the other world would be neither incorruptible nor eternal. The tiniest flaw in a building, institution, code, or character will inevitably prove fatal in the long run of eternity.”
(from Elder Christofferson)
It follows, conversely, if an incident does not prove fatal in the long run of eternity, it was not a sin.
Some wonder why God would punish people. The answer is that it’s a kind of celestial engineering. Sin making you unfit for eternity isn’t a consequence. Its the definition of sin. That’s what it is. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t be sin.
I want to be careful because I am going to say something a tiny bit shocking. It is true but not in every sense. It is that sins you repent of are not even sins at all, anymore, because once you repent of them they won’t stop you from pursuing your course.
It’s as if doing something wicked in mortality isn’t yet sin. It’s Schrodinger’s sin. Whether it was sin or not remains to be determined by whether you repent of it later.
IAW
January 6, 2022
From the cat’s viewpoint, the reality outside the box is also undetermined.
So, all of reality is really just Schrodinger’s reality.
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January 7, 2022
the past doesn’t exist though, it’s not real, you can’t go there, what’s in the past isn’t “sin” sin is in you because of what happened when the past was real (not the past)
G.
January 8, 2022
That is another great way of making the point. In a way sin isn’t wrongness. Sin is wrongness carried forward.
Bookslinger
January 8, 2022
Time. It’s a difficult concept.