If a sin is not intentional but due to psychological or physical reasoning, will Jesus Christ still count that act as a sin?
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If a sin is not intentional but due to psychological or physical reasoning, will Jesus Christ still count that act as a sin?
Circumstances can definitely diminish the culpability of a sin in an individual and in some cases it may be negated completely of any culpability.
Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say on this subject:
1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. The promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.
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Sin is what we have inherited from Adam. So we all have sinned and fall short of the glory ("value") [if you will permit me to say]) of God. 1John 3:8 (King James Bible Version) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was maninifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
So I have sinned, this is why I have come to the conclusion that the purpose God meant for the coming of His Son Jesus is to save me from the eternal effects of my sin: "separation from God (in Heaven) forever". It is not that I am sinless, but that by my personal relationship with God, (in faith of Christ), but that I sin less;
Galatians 2: 16-20 KJV Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law (Ten Commandments), but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
1John 1:5-10
This then is the message which we heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness we lie, an do not the truth: But if we walk in the Light , as He is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins (to each other and to God), He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
I will and must continue to make God's will my own and my own will I will surrender to God, so that I might not sin against Him. And if I do sin I will confess my sin to a trusted brethren (in Christ) and God, so that I will be cleansed from all unrighteousness and continue in an unbroken relationship with God (in Christ).
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