Sin

What is Sin?

"[S]in ultimately means the misuse of our energies resulting in alienation from God, from others and, sometimes, from our own selves." -- Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Neurobiology of Sin.

Sin as a Sickness

"...alas for the soul that is unaware of its wounds and that in its endless sinfulness and obduracy does not think it has anything evil within it: the good doctor will not visit it or heal it, since it does not seek Him out or have any concern for its wounds, because it thinks it is well and in good health. As the Lord said: 'It is not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick' (Mt. 9:12)." -- St. Makarios of Egypt

Darkness, Freedom

"That is our darkness. It is the darkness of freedom that runs so frantic that it becomes a prison. We are, and we have always been, free. We are not spiders who spin the same web from one generation of spiders to the next. We are free. We can create. We can destroy. We can reject this Other, this God Who calls us but will not force us to love Him. We can even create alter-gods of our own devising, bastardized versions of the real God in whom we attempt to deify our deepest darkness." -- Rebecca Hamilton, Christianity: The Religion of Life, Patheos.com, August 25, 2014, [1]

"Our great dignity is that of all the creatures and living things on this planet, we alone are free. God sets before us each and every day life and death. We can chose the life of His Light. Or we can chose the death of our many false gods and self gods." -- Rebecca Hamilton, Christianity: The Religion of Life, Patheos.com, August 25, 2014, [2]