Is Sin a Religious Myth or a Spiritual Law?

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AVAlexander VolchekSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritKarma, free will, and causalityForgivenessKarma

What is said here

• 00:11When we come to the word “sin,” the concept of sin, and our own experience of sin, it is important to understand it.Spirit · Karma
• 01:36I had my two girls and my son, who is older. My son was behaving quite inappropriately. He could not sit still; something inside him kept him fidgeting. He was constantly disturbing people.Karma · Children · Son
• 03:01Those rules can be religious: the church established them. They can be divine: someone obtained them somewhere, from books or treatises, or someone heard them…Karma · Cause and effect
• 04:24So, someone has done something bad, committed a sin, and a person says, “I know karma exists and that everything will have to be answered for. That does not concern me.”Truth · Spirit
• 05:53On the one hand, it does, because a bad action, an action that is not in keeping with truth, a violation of a particular law, leads to certain consequences in terms of karma.Karma · Time · Spirit
• 07:19It is not simply a matter of doing something bad now and living through it now. You may be experiencing an enormous number of good things at the moment because you have good past karma.Karma · Spirit · Retreat
• 09:17Take karma away from people, and everyone would immediately sink into darkness now. Self-interest. Money, power, and malice would begin to take over everything. Gradually. One’s own personal opinion. All of it would take over.Spirit · Karma · The human spiritual system

Claims made here

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• 00:37

  If we read a basic definition, sin is an action, thought, desire, or failure to act that goes against—and I am reading this directly—established norms, rules, or the will of…

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• 02:12

  Because they—or one of them—saw karma as something bad or something extraordinarily unusual, like sin.

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• 02:37

  “So it is like…” Yes, again, as I always say, you are saying the right thing. But people basically perceive sin as something weighty.

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• 04:47

  So when we discuss the word “sin” and you ask your question, we arrive at the idea of an action that is not in keeping with truth in the Universe.

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• 05:26

  We will not go into that again, because it depends on faith, religion, and laws. There are laws in some countries that are obviously sinful. Not carrying out the action is considered a sin, a violation of that country’s law, while the action itself is sinful in the first place.

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• 05:53

  On the one hand, it does, because a bad action, an action that is not in keeping with truth, a violation of a particular law, leads to certain consequences in terms of karma.

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• 07:32

  Starting tomorrow, incredibly negative events may occur because you need to live through some negative aspect of that karma.

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• 08:38

  But if we rise a certain level higher—again, Olya—if we use the word “sin” for events that lead to karmic consequences… Once again, karmic consequences arose because humanity began to sink into darkness with the arrival of Ahriman. To keep people from…

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• 09:31

  There is a good saying: nothing is worse than being angry at the state of your country’s political or economic system, or at the people living around you.

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• 10:33

  There is no material reasoning there. When people want to move to that level of perception, they still want to retain material aspects of reasoning and analyze material events. But analyzing material events is meaningless in this case.

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