sin

when we adopted our rescue cat nicholas from the shelter, we picked him because he looked like he needed a friend--"grumpy cat". he was in the back of his cage. I touched his blanket. nicholas pulled his blanket back, i.e. "don't touch that". Jenny has been a cat person all of her life. there's no one better to deal with a cat with an attitude than Jenny. 

nicholas is young and rambunctious. he tears around the house, jumps onto furniture, knocks stuff on the floor, etc. we don't discipline nicholas. he's a cat. he doesn't speak our language and we don't speak his. that's not to say that Jenny doesn't talk to nicholas. she tells him not to jump on the table, kitchen counter, etc.--in a "conversational" tone rather than an angry tone. amazingly, nicholas gets it. he seems to understand that tearing around the house, slamming into things, jumping on the table, etc. are no-nos. 

sin is defined as an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. divine law is God's law. how can we know God's law? there's the bible. there's our conscience. but, who really knows God's mind? could it be that God considers some of our actions as "learning experiences" rather than an "immoral act" and/or a "transgression" against His "divine law"? 

sometimes the church "pontificates"--quick to tell us what are immoral acts and transgressions against God's divine law. we know what the bible says about that:
"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
john 8:7

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