a fascinating thing about Sin in the Bible is that most of the time that people are failing they either don't know it or even worse they think they're succeeding like when Pharaoh wants to build Egypt's economy and protect National Security in his mind this justifies enslaving the Israelites he thinks it's good and he's totally unaware that it's an epic fail so sin is about more than just doing bad things it describes how we easily deceive ourselves and spin Illusions to redefine our bad decisions as good ones the Bible is trying to tell us that failed
human behavior our tendency towards self-deception it runs deep it's rooted in our desires and selfish urges that compel us to act for our own benefit at the expense of others and it leads to this chain reaction of relational breakdown this is why in the New Testament the Apostle Paul describes hamartia as a power or a force that rules humans [Music]
