~Anastasia~
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Welcome to CF!Sins are not simply transgression of the law, infact sins are any actions which break your relationship to God.
The Law covers most of them, but not all of them.
True life is life with God.
Our position is similar. The Orthodox view sin as similar to a state of disease, and thus the condition of fallen-ness. Many times Scripture uses almost interchangeably statements regarding healing, forgiveness, and salvation. The Greek "sozo" is used for words variously translated into English as "save" and "heal" - though the original manuscripts used the same words. Christ said, "Get up and walk - your sins are forgiven." And so on.
This disease state indeed does separate us from God, and is the cause of our need to "be saved" - restoring us to the likeness of Christ and restoring our fellowship with God as part of the same process.
So I would agree that "sin is that which separates us from God" and that the law does not cover every such instance. Failing to do the right thing if we can discern it is also sin, according to the Scriptures, though there is no written law against not doing good deeds.
Again, welcome to CF. This is an interesting point you bring out.
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