The Greek biblical word for sin, "amartia", means literally "to miss the mark", like an archer. Sin is not necessarily defined by moral wrongness, by transgressing some set of rules, but is instead doing anything that takes our focus off God (the target), onto ourselves, thinking we are the be-all-and-end-all.
"Sin is nothing else than to neglect eternal things, and seek after temporal things" -- St. Augustine
by The Immovable Object January 14, 2004
Guy 1: Where were you?
Guy 2: In the bathroom.
Guy 1: You are going to hell.
Guy 2: Why?
Guy 1: Because that's a sin.
Guy 2: Aw...
Guy 2: In the bathroom.
Guy 1: You are going to hell.
Guy 2: Why?
Guy 1: Because that's a sin.
Guy 2: Aw...
by ellometal November 03, 2009
by messenger of truth April 09, 2007
by itshowdytime September 16, 2019
Short for the word sine. It is a stupid and idiotic trigonometric function. Gives headaches to calculus students everywhere. Teachers try to give there students a stupid story about an indian, but they never really care, and when taught at seven in the morning, it could never really be understood.
sin(90)=1
It should be a sin to teach us about sin this early in the morning and expect us to remember it.
It should be a sin to teach us about sin this early in the morning and expect us to remember it.
by Confused1 November 08, 2005
It should be a sin for people to be so blatantly ignorant that they lay blame on others for problems they've brought on themselves.
by Reverend Chaos September 03, 2003
by Stephan Hill September 06, 2006