One Minute Moment: Sin vs Temptation

If a person breaks the law, standard practice is a punishment affixed to that law. This law breaking is sin. Temptation is the open opportunity to sin. Sin is an undesireable action in society and for the individual. Though some may be pushed to say the same for temptation, look at what happens when someone never has the opportunity for choice. When you cannot make decisions for yourself, you develop an Ophelia Complex. Your choices become dependent on the assertions of others and you are not your own. You become something to be acted upon instead of something to act. So while sin is undesirable, temptation is necesary to produce viable men and women in society. Strength comes in overcoming.

Now to change gears and apply this to a troubling modern day issue: people being punished for saying things. Now sometimes the sin is actually the words we say, such as in verbal abuse and bullying. But when our words are instead the temptation, then we must allow those words to be said, for they are a necesary part of a functioning society. When someone acts on their words is when it crosses the line from sin to temptation. So please stop trying to punish people for words. Punish them for their deeds.

One side note: To those who do not believe in sin or God's laws, you do have a set of laws in place whether you like it or not. Measure yourself by that law.

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