Sin is defined as an obstacle to freedom that rejects our conscience and transgresses God's moral laws, breaking relationships with God, others, and ourselves. Two inadequate views of sin are thinking about it too little or too much. The primary Christian reality is not human suffering and sin, but God's healing and forgiveness.

1. When Do We Commit Sin?
What is Sin?

2. What was the Greatest Sin ever done
to you?
What are the common qualities of the
‘greatest sins’ ever done to you by
others?

3. WHAT IS SIN?
Sin is the single greatest obstacle to our true
freedom

4. Sin is a rejection of the good to which
our conscience directs us

5. Sin is a transgression of God’s moral
laws

6. Sin is a broken relationship with God,
with others, and with oneself

7. TWO INADEQUATE NOTIONS ON OUR
HUMAN SINFULNESS
1. Thinking about sin too little: Pope Pius XII
“the greatest sin of the century is the loss of a
sense of sin”
2. Thinking about sin too much:
Sin is an overwhelming force
in our world at present

8. Conclusion
“The primary reality for Christians is not human
suffering and sin but God’s healing and
forgiveness of sin”
CFC 1761