I have to wonder, if is truly one's one moral code. If my morals say it's ok to kill someone who keeps me awake by snoring and I do so, is it a sin? Not breaking my moral code.
Then it's not a 'sin.' It may well be a CRIME, and you will have to pay the consequences society demands, but it's not a 'sin.' Not if your morals really DO say that it's OK to kill someone whose snoring keeps you awake. Mind you, society may well attempt to get you to see that your particular moral code has a few problems.....
I think more likely it'd be some rules you were taught as moral, by religion/parents. A person does what they feel is right at the time. They may regret it later or feel guilt because of outside social pressure.
How does where one GETS one's moral code matter? If it's your code, it's your code, no matter where it came from originally. Sin is a VERY personal matter.
Now, if you later come to the conclusion that something you did earlier, even though you didn't think it was a sin at the time, was the wrong thing to do, then the process you are now engaging in is called 'repentance.' The steps of repentance include, FIRST, a recognition that something you did (or didn't do) was indeed wrong and 'sinful.' Once you do that, then you can go through the 'feel guilt/sorrow," 'attempt recompense,' 'fix it,' and 'stop doing the wrong thing."
I don't like coffee, I don't drink it. Kind of weird, you don't drink coffee because you feel it's wrong to do so? Don't like it, don't drink it. Drink it if you do. Why does this become a moral issue?
Because I promised not to drink it. That promise IS a moral issue. Perhaps it's not for you, but it is for me, y'see? A sin is a violation of one's personal moral code. BTW, I'm with you about the taste of coffee. I have to admit that my dislike for it does make it easier for me to keep that promise.
It's a LOT harder for Mom to keep it, since she loves the stuff.
As for me, I get the best part of coffee....the smell. If coffee tasted like it smelled, I might be far more tempted to break that promise.
She did what she felt was right to do at the time. If someone convinced her to feel guilt about it later, she probably have seen it as sinful.
Perhaps. And that is called 'repentance." Repentance, also, is a very personal thing.
I don't consider anything I do as wrong in anyway. If I considered it wrong, I wouldn't do it.
Goodness. A perfect man. I thought there was only One of those. Glad to meet another one.
Of course I make mistakes but that due to a lack of knowledge at the time. From those mistakes I learn to make better choices next time. No need for guilt or feeling immoral.
Don't knock guilt or remorse. Those people who truly don't ever feel any are sociopaths, and they are NOT assets to society.
As I see it, folks do whatever they see as right at the time.
They do whatever they feel is the best for the most important person/principle in their lives at the time. That doesn't mean that whatever they do 'at the time' isn't something they honestly believe is wrong, in their own moral view of things.
"Sin" is trying to impose your personal idea of right and wrong onto someone else or letting someone else impose there morals on you.
Nope. Sin has NOTHING to do with anybody else but you. What you are describing, in the above sentence, isn't 'sin,' it's 'law.'
And they are two entirely different concepts. Sometimes they are contradictory concepts.
