Category:Sin: Difference between revisions

[[Sin]] ({{Greek|ἁμαρτία}} ''hamartia'' "to miss a goal", synonymous with {{HeS|חֵטְא}} ''chet'' "sin, guilt" used in the [[w:Old Testament|Old Testament]]; {{Latin|peccatum}}, derived from the {{Indo-European|*ped}} "to walk, fall, stumble", cf. {{Latin|''pes''}} "foot"), through which [[man]] imposes [[karmic]] guilt on himself, is a consequence of the [[Fall of Man]] caused by the [[Luciferic temptation]], through which man was thrust into the [[sensual world]] and thereby increasingly withdrawn from the direct guidance of the gods. On the one hand, this opened the gate to [[freedom]] for man, through which he can bring his actions in thoughts, words and deeds into harmony with the will of the [[spiritual world by]] his own free decision and thereby enrich it through his individual contribution; on the other hand, if he, tempted by [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]], directs his egoistic desires towards the sensual world, he can also miss his spiritual goal of development and thereby fall into sin.