THE BIAS TOWARDS SIN CONTRADICTS THE DOCTRINE
THAT GOD HAS A GOOD PURPOSE FOR US
Sin is an act in thought, word, deed or ommission that is against the moral law
of God. Sin should not necessarily lead to more sins. Eating quinoa once
has nothing to do with leading you to eat it again. So if sin leads to
bias that must be God's fault. Religion says that sin leaves a bias in the
sense that a sin leads to more sins and makes new sins easier to commit.
How could God want us to be compassionate and allow suffering for that purpose when he allows so many strong and convincing temptations to sin and even ensures that any sin will lead to new temptations and create them?
If sin is virtually the same as having a bias to sin then how can we trust and forgive sinners? Love the sinner and hate the sin would end up being a mere outlook and impractical. It would not be the first principle we have that we have to have but not for practical reasons. But it would prove religion cannot claim to be able to to do anything about hating sinners.
Sin is even punished by an attraction to sin and
self-destruction - a sin deserves the punishment of you developing a bigger
attraction to sin. No system of retribution or justice or punishment goes
as far as wanting to see people corrupted by their crime sin or anybody else's.
Justice is about taking a stand against evil and the evil person not encouraging
the evil which would be revenge pure and simple.
The Bible teaches that the fall of man from happiness and holiness when Adam and
Eve sinned was a real fall (page 65, Arguing With God) and was a terrible thing
and that God did not want it. This tells us that discipline is no excuse for God
permitting our suffering. God never wanted Adam and Eve to undergo it and did
not think that Adam and Eve needed to work with suffering beings to be good. God
should not have let Adam and Eve spread their evil by having children but should
have made billions of Adams and Eves and put each pair of them on one planet by
themselves with the animals so that there would be fewer sinners. The fall
doctrine makes God out to be extremely cruel and stupid.
Christianity says we are all biased towards sin since the time Adam sinned
(Romans 3) which was why Jesus described the road to salvation as a narrow and
rough one. This view contradicts the Christian claim that we must think the best
of everybody even if their behaviour looks dodgy. When observed, you will see
that the average Christian does not really think the best of everyone.
The notion that we are that sinful does not ring true to most people. That is
because most people see sin in humanitarian terms - wilfully hurting other
people. But when sin is seen as not giving God enough love though he deserves it
all for he makes our whole being it becomes clear that everything or nearly
everything we do is a sin.
The humanist view is that we must avoid condemning sins that are not sins and
regarding deeds as evil or bad when they are not. Anything with too many moral
rules is not moral at all. It only makes people feel less confident about being
good.