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Matt Slick of www.carm.org explains the nature of sin. ------ to comment on this video, please go to http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/forumdisplay.php? f=191
Sin is breaking the law of God. If God says do not lie and you lie, then you've broken
His law and sinned. When you sin, you offend God because it is His law that you've broken.
Also, the reason God says to not lie and to not cheat, etc., is because these laws reflect the moral purity of God's character, of His very nature.
Therefore, the law is a reflection of the character of God. It is wrong to lie because God cannot lie.
It is wrong to steal because God cannot steal. The moral law is not arbitrary.
It is based on God's holiness. It's based on His character. The law, then, is a standard of moral purity.
The Old Testament contains the law of God. It is a perfect standard because it is God's standard. When we fail to keep the law, we sin.
When we sin, we offend God. This offense against God results in a judgment. Laws are laws because they have penalties.
There is no law without a penalty. Therefore, breaking God's law brings judgment, which is separation from God.
It says in Isaiah 59, 2, But your sins have made a separation between you and your
God. And Romans 6, 23 says, The wages of sin is death. So to sin, to break
God's law, results in judgment. The judgment is known as damnation, which is the righteous judgment of God upon the sinner.
If God did not judge the sinner, then He is not upholding His holiness and He would be allowing sinners to go unpunished.
Of course, Jesus came to take our place and to die in our place and take our sins.
1 Peter 2 .24 says, He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross.
He paid for our sins in His body on the cross. Jesus took the judgment of death upon Himself and He died.
This further means that anyone who trusts in what Jesus did on the cross will have his sins removed. He will be saved from God's future judgment.
So replying to the question, what is sin, is best answered by saying that it is breaking God's law.
All people have sinned. Therefore, all people are under God's judgment, except for those who have trusted in God's provision to escape that judgment.