Understanding The Origins of Sin

First off, you may ask what is sin exactly? Literally speaking, sin is a transgression against divine law. (anything that is against gods laws/commandments.) Sin is any action, any thought, or word that is considered immoral, harmful, selfish, ect. The word ‘sin’ alone appears over 400 times in the bible! The origins of the word ‘sin’ is actually a term that is used in archery to explain when you miss the bullseye after shooting the arrow; you’r not hitting the mark that you were aiming at. In other words, to understand sin we need to understand what we are aiming at which is glorifying God. Anything that is considered a sin is what you would consider depicting an inaccurate view of who god really is.

Where did sin come from? Where did it start in the bible?

Sin all starts in the first book of the bible: Genesis 3 :God makes humans (the word human is actually ‘Adam’ in Hebrew, in which the first man was named after) and makes them in His image which has to do with their role and purpose in Gods world so they are made to be reflections of God’s character out into the world. Their purpose was to take care of the world and be fruitful. God gives these humans a garden; The Garden of Eden(which is a place where they begin starting to build this new world). The humans have a choice about how they are going to go about building this world (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil). God has defined to them what is good and not good, he gives humans the freedom of choice; if they have the choice to either trust gods definitions of good…