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Originally Posted by Jo S
I meant to post this earlier on the topic of sin and Satan but forgot I had left it open in my browser.
I remember someone asked for a biblical definition of sin. Here it is in 1 John 3:4;
"Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness."
We can see John labels sin more in the sense of it being a law because it's something that can be "practiced". Any lawyers out there should understand this.
What then is a law? A law is a set of principles.
Satan is lawless (2 Thess 2:9) but he is not lawlessness itself just as a police officer isn't the law itself but one who enforces the law.
In otherwords, Satan is a principality and not a set of principles. So to say Satan is sin, whether in or outside of a person, is error.
I've got to say, from an outsider's perspective, Lee's teachings have strong gnostic qualities to them.
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A problem for this view is that it treats sin as something which exists independently of a person. Can you show us sin without a person? I would say that sin is lawlessness because lawlessness comes from Satan who is lawless. We could shorten this to say "lawlessness is Satan".