The definition of sin is the violation of God’s law. God gave the 10 commandments that are recorded in Exodus 20:2–17. They demonstrate to us how He desires his saved and redeemed people to live and bring Him honor. It’s the ideal way of living.
God is perfect
God’s standards are flawless, and He is faultless in every manner. Nothing can alter it since it is who He is. Because of our sinfulness, we are unable to be as flawless as He is.
He hates sin because:
Sin is everything He is not
God, being holy, detests sin. This indicates that [He is] without fault of any kind and morally flawless (Psalm 89:35, 92:15, Romans 9:14). He is sin’s antithesis. He views sin as burdensome debt (Matthew 6:12–15), defiling filth (Titus 1:15; 2 Corinthians 7:1), putrefying sores (Isaiah 1:6), darkness (1 John 1:6), and a scarlet stain (Isaiah 1:18). Everything He is not is sin.
Sin separates people from Him
However, your sins have obscured God’s face from you and caused a rift between you and Him, making it impossible for Him to hear you (Isaiah 59:2). Because of sin, Adam and Eve fled from God and took refuge “among the garden’s trees” (Genesis 3:8). God detests being apart from us because He loves us and because sin is the reason for this separation.
Sin directs people to worldly pleasures and not to God’s blessings
Pursuing sin involves rejecting God’s gifts; according to Jeremiah 29:11, God has “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Worldly pleasures are the antithesis of God’s benefits and destructive.
Sin blinds people to the truth
False instructors drive others into immorality because they are blinded by sin (Matthew 15:14). Sin blinds people, making it impossible for them to accept Jesus as the Truth, the Way, and the Life, thereby leading them away from [the path of redemption]. God detests sin because He wants everyone to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4).
Sin enslaves people and will eventually destroy them
Spiritual blindness and bondage are the results of sin. “You are slaves to the one you obey—either to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness—when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves,” Paul says in Romans 6:16.
When you are free to live the life that God desires for you, that is true freedom. Because He has fully atoned for our sin, only Jesus can grant us this freedom: “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36). It is regrettable that individuals would rather chose evil, which aims to ruin us, than God, who genuinely loves and desires to bless us. May God provide us the wisdom to make informed decisions.
