Adventistische Schriften über: "Sin as Missing the Mark or Law Violation"

The biblical definition of sin is primarily described as a transgression of the divine law, with every deviation from God's will forming the core of sin. Furthermore, sin is presented as a “missing the mark,” which includes both the failure to hit the right target and the conscious overstepping of the boundaries of righteousness. While every form of missing the mark is sin, it deepens into conscious injustice, yet the law remains the constant standard for recognizing this guilt.

The Definition of Sin as Transgression

»Sin is the transgression of the law." Here we have the true definition of sin; it is "the transgression of the law." How often the sinner is urged to abandon his sins and come to Jesus; but has the messenger, who wishes to lead him to Christ, clearly shown the way? Has he made clear the fact that "sin is the transgression of the law" and that he must repent and cease breaking God's commandments?«

1 - Ellen Gould White, Faith and Works (FW 117.2)

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Sin as Missing the Mark and Overstepping Boundaries

»Our view of the goal may be clouded. In our effort to hit the target, we may have stumbled and overstepped the boundaries—crossed the line of righteousness into the field of unrighteousness—and thus transgressed. Yet consider that this transgression is not separable from sin; it is merely an extension of the idea of sin, a continuation of falling short. This is also sin... because it also misses the goal, it is sin. Yet this is a deeper phase of the original idea of falling short. Of course, the concept of sin encompasses all this to the utmost; for sin is falling short.«

2 - Uriah Smith, Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 8 (ARSH March 14, 1899, page 170.6)

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Missing the Goal Through Lack of Faith

»Missing the goal. — The Jews strived for the law of righteousness, but did not achieve it. Why not? "Because they did not seek it by faith, but rather as if by works of the law." How emphatically this shows... that only through faith can the law be kept! The Jews are not condemned because they followed the law of righteousness, but because they did not follow it in the right way.«

3 - Ellet Joseph Waggoner, Waggoner on Romans (WOR 165.5)

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Sin as Violation of Holiness

»Sin is defined by Webster as: "Any violation of God's will"; and by Scripture: "Sin is the transgression of the law." ... Now sin is a breach of the law of holiness, a falling away from the likeness to the divine form, and as such it absolutely refuses to be measured. It is eternal death, falling out of the form of the Divine.«

4 - Alonzo Trevier Jones, The Two Republics, or Rome and the United States of America (TTR 711.3)

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The Necessity of Defining Sin

»Preachers who urge sinners to conversion should clearly define what sin is and what conversion from sin means. Sin is the transgression of the law. The converted sinner must practice repentance toward God for transgressing His law and have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle gives us the true definition of sin. "Sin is the transgression of the law.«

5 - Ellen Gould White, Confrontation (Con 75.1)

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