The Cost of Being Petty
As a seminary student, I have been studying a lot about sin and how it effects people. One of the most interesting things for me has been learning how many different words there are for sin in the original languages the Bible was written in, Hebrew and Greek. For example, in the Old Testament there are at least 7 words that describe sin and in the New Testament there are at least 9 words that describe sin. There is another interesting thing about sin that my studies have revealed. The first sin the Bible records is when Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. They went against the expressed command of God, so sin put a separation between humanity and God, but pay attention to this verse, "The man said, 'The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate' (Genesis 3:12).” Now, look at the second sin the Bible records, "And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, ...