Day after day, violence, injustice, disoreder, confusion, crime,
hatred and discrimination fill today's newspapers as well as the broadcasts on TV and radio and we all tend to blame others or the
environment for these countless evils. However, are we able to say
for sure that we ourselves are totally innocent and sinless?
In the New Testament, when the religious leaders tried to stone a
woman who had been caught in the act of adultery, Jesus said,
if any one of you is without sin,
let him be the first to throw a stone at her
and absolutely nobody could stone her. Are we honest enough to
admit that the apostle Paul's sayings,
you who pass judgment on someone else
for at whatever point you judge the other,
you are condemning yourself,
because you who pass judgment do the same things,
and
for what I do is not the good I want to do;
no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing,
seem to be our very situations? Our omnipotent and omniscient
God's answer is,
all have sinned
and
there is no one righteous, not even one.
Or maybe we take sin lightly as being man's natural attribute
and not a crime violating the law? What the Bible says against this are;
the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
and

Jn.8:7
Ro.2:1,7:19
Job 37:23, Jer.32:27
Ps.14:1-3, Ro.3:23,:10-12
Jer.17:9

for from within, out of men's hearts come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed ,malice, deceit,
lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
All these evils come from inside and make a man "unclean".
Namely, the Bible severely points out that the root of the problem
lies in man himself rather than his deeds. Man sins because he is
born a sinner.

Israel's rebellious history against God written in the Hebrew
Bible depicts that God is a God of wrath who repays sins
relentlessly. He Himself declared.

I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
punishing the children for the sin of the fathers
to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

However, at the same time, He is a God of love. The Bible tells us that even Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land flowing with milk and honey, Canaan because of one single act of
disobedience to God, although he was otherwise always faithful to
God, interceding for the dissatisfied and discontented Israelites in the wilderness after the Exodus and pacifying God's wrath towards them.

Then, what is sin in the Bible or what is sin from God's
viewpoint? The answer to this in the Bible is that whatever cannot
achieve God's perfect standard are all sins, which will surely be
judged. In other words, the intentional rebellions which do not obey God's authority and laws are all sins. Man, who was given a free
will is rebelling against God by choosing the way to sin.

A righteous God never overlooks sin. We might be able to avoid
eyes in this world but not the eyes of God! No one can escape from
the day of judgment which is to come after our death, which Paul
describes,
Each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Revelation20:11-15 clearly announces that all those whose names are not written in the book of life will be thrown into hell where they
will be tormented forever and ever.

Jn.8:7
Ro.2:1,7:19
Job 37:23, Jer.32:27
Ps.14:1-3, Ro.3:23,:10-12
Jer.17:9