In article <FGkEj.12317$FK1.5654@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Doodle says...
>
>"Matthew Johnson" <matthew_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:ekFDj.6477$%Y2.2162@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <LOiDj.12546$hP3.1734@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, B.G. Kent says...
>>>
>>>Yes we do...sinning is to make a mistake and I've not once seen a human
>>>being...Christian or not..that does not make mistakes and by those...we
>>>learn.
>>
>> Speaking of mistakes, you make quite a few in this short post. But I
will
>> focus
>> on only one: 'sinning' is NOT the same as "making mistakes". You are
>> confusing
>> the etymology of th word with the current meaning.
>
>.....or he is saying that when most Christians sin....they are making a
>mistake.
>
>I think his meaning was clear.
First of all, it is 'her', not 'his'. More im****tantly, her 'meaning' is
clearly
WRONG.
'Sin' is NOT just a form of 'mistake'. Some mistakes are sins, but not all
sins
are mistakes, neither are mistakes in general sins. There are guiltless
mistakes. They are even the majority of mistakes.
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