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Things Off the Love Track= Sin

Sin is an act or state of mind or heart that is against LOVE. Creation is made of Love. Every sin can be traced back to a violation of the commandments to love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength or to Love neighbor as yourself.
The Cardinal Sins all point to a failing to love God or neighbor. Lust demeans and objectifies neighbor, it doesn't love the neighbor. Adultery steals from neighbor a spouse. Avarice is a disordered greed tied to pride that insists on more to puff oneself up in a disordered way above true love of God first, envy wishes harm on a neighbor which is the opposite of love. Slander harms neighbor and destroys reputations. This is an assault on love.

In the Old Testament sin is set forth as an act of disobedience (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:11; Isaiah 1:2-4; Jeremiah 2:32); as an insult to God (Numbers 27:14); as something detested and punished by God (Genesis 3:14-19; Genesis 4:9-16); as injurious to the sinner (Tob., xii, 10); to be expiated by penance (Ps. 1, 19). In the New Testament it is clearly taught in St. Paul that sin is a transgression of the law (Romans 2:23; 5:12-20); a servitude from which we are liberated by grace (Romans 6:16-18); a disobedience (Hebrews 2:2) punished by God (Hebrews 10:26-31). St. John describes sin as an offence to God, a disorder of the will (John 12:43), an iniquity (1 John 3:4-10). Christ in many of His utterances teaches the nature and extent of sin. He came to promulgate a new law more perfect than the old, which would extend to the ordering not only of external but also of internal acts to a degree unknown before, and, in His Sermon on the Mount, he condemns as sinful many acts which were judged honest and righteous by the doctors and teachers of the Old Law. He denounces in a special manner hypocrisy and scandal, infidelity and the sin against the Holy Ghost. In particular He teaches that sins come from the heart (Matthew 15:19-20).

LOVE is the Goal. Unity with Love, Oneness with Love is Heaven. The Kingdom of God is very near. But Love requires more than the absence of assaults upon it- it requires an affirmative expression of it. That is why Chastity alone is not Love. Love is more than the absence of sins against it.
Keep Your Eye On The Prize.