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	Evil?
Bittersweet	14 year(s) ago Are sin and evil the same thing?
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Dante	14 year(s) ago The concept of sin as mentioned in the Bible is often analogized using legal terminology, in many respects portrayed as a legal partition between the sinner and god that must be mended by fulfilling a specific set of requirements. The concept of "evil" is sort of muddied up by most modern standards within the Bible, and in particular within the Old Testament, but the general idea is that anything not of god is sin, and ergo "evil." Which brings the Euthyphro dilemma to mind, but that's another topic. Dante
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larry229	14 year(s) ago My understanding is that sin is evil but evil is not sin. "Evil" includes basically a range of bad things that might or might not be malevolent or even conscious in intent. Mind you, I am more or less making that up.
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