WHAT YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD "SIN"

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WHAT YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD "SIN" by Mind Map: WHAT YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD "SIN"

1. brokeness

2. RIGHT AND WRONG - THE MORAL ASPECT OF SIN

2.1. Understanding the difference between right and wrong

2.1.1. What is right and wrong?

2.1.1.1. Postmodernism and the lack of objective truth

2.1.1.1.1. SIN ACCORDING TO POSTMODERNISM

2.1.1.2. Modernism and easily attainable scientifically measurable truth

2.1.1.2.1. SIN ACCORDING TO MODERNISM

2.1.1.3. Christian perspective: what pleases God

2.2. Willfully choosing wrong

2.3. Ignoring the potential consequence

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4. characteristics

4.1. dulled conscience

5. Forgiveness

5.1. regret

6. CONSEQUENCES

6.1. Personal

6.2. Moral

6.3. Legal

6.4. Social

6.5. Environmental

7. SIN IN POPULAR CULTURE

8. Repentance

9. Expecting all to be forgiven in the 'eleventh hour'

10. Enjoyment, thrill, personal gain

11. Choosing to do what you know or feel is wrong anyway

12. Sins of the flesh; lying, cheating, stealing for personal gain; profanity, substance abuse, and other forms of peer pressure

13. "Do as I say, not as I do"

14. HYPOCRISY

14.1. Any misdeeds done during the week will be forgiven simply by going to church

15. THE CHURCH

15.1. Hellfire and brimstone preaching

15.2. Inescapable damnation

15.3. High Profile Leadership Scandals

15.4. Focus on God's wrath rather than His love

15.4.1. an unforgiving God

15.5. hypersensitivity to anything (or anyone) that looks like it(they) might be sin(ful), connected with sinful behavior, or the phenomenon of "someone who sinned really bad did that once or listened to that kind of music so therefore it must also be sinful"

15.6. As body of the Great Forgiver (hands, feet) Welcoming people who are chock full of sin (not pretending we're outside it)

15.6.1. humility

16. DEFINITIONS

16.1. Anything that causes physical, emotional, or mental harm to ourselves or others

16.2. Bad habits

16.3. Personal "indulgences"

16.4. Falling short of God's perfection (Calvin)

16.5. A willful transgression against a known law of God (Wesley)

16.6. Rd

16.7. choosing something besides God

17. THE EXPERIENCE OF SIN

17.1. SHAME OF FAILURE

17.1.1. Disappointment with self

17.1.2. Sense of personal weakness

17.1.3. Fear of recurrence

17.2. CONFUSION

17.2.1. Lack of perspective

17.2.2. Is what I did really so bad?

17.2.3. Does it make me a bad person?

17.3. Sense of Loss

17.3.1. will God really forgive me again?

18. THE PORTRAYAL OF SIN

18.1. EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

18.1.1. THE DEVIL, HORNS, FIRE!!!!

18.2. EXCITING & DESIRABLE

18.3. NO BIG DEAL

18.3.1. "Little white lies"

18.3.2. Everybody else does it

19. BIBLICAL EMPHASES

19.1. OT

19.1.1. Genesis - Curse

19.1.2. Prophets - Excess

19.1.2.1. Material Excess

19.1.2.2. Ignoring the orphan and the widow

19.2. NT

19.2.1. James - Omission

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