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[OBW]

Originally Posted by InChristAlone

The word sin means literally “missing the mark.” It means the failure to be what one should be and to do what one should do.

I have read that the word translated into "sin" did not include the meaning of simply missing the mark when it was written. There is evidence that this English word (in older days) into which it was translated also included the meaning of not hitting the bulls-eye in archery. But the evidence that such a meaning was in the un-translated word is missing. In the first century AD, the word seems to mean to do what was wrong or forbidden. Not just do what was right but not perfectly.

Not saying that missing the mark is OK. But it is not so clear that it bears the label of sin.