I sat in a meeting back in the 1980s in which Dr Derek Prince was the speaker. He started off by holding his arm straight out to the side. He then flexed the arm so his fingers touched his shoulder. Then he repeated the action and asked "Which is right?" Every one looked confused. "Which is right? This;" he extended his arm, "or this?" He flexed it back to his shoulder again. "They are exactly opposite actions. Surely one must be right and the other wrong." He repeated the extend and flex action a couple more times.
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The title says it is about the definition of sin, which is concrete and not affected by perception.
"Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."
We perceive from either the dust/earth realm or spirit/kingdom realm. "One" cannot exist while two remain within/duality. Our definition/perception changes/progresses as we grow up into HIM...which has everything to do with perceiving...good/evil, light/darkness and being blind that we might see.
Essentially. Our conscience, (IF well formed by grace and catechesis), is where the Holy Spirit of God resides. Since the incarnation, and the sending down of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the law is "written on the heart" of Christians. When you, with knowledge of right and wrong which is a grace of God through the Holy Spirit, make a conscious decision to do something we know is wrong, we are sinning. When that sin concerns grave matter, (i.e. breaking a commandment for instance), it is a sin which critically wounds our relationship with God. We will still be given the grace because of our baptism to feel guilt, which will help us to seek to repent, and turn away from the sin and return to God's good grace. But we must accept the gift of the grace of God in order to repent, because repentance is an act of human will made possible by grace and faith.
I already did, in post #106, to which you had responded with John 3:16 as though it negated it.
