There aren’t an awful lot of people that are eager to or really willing to admit to people that they congregate with or are friends with that they have performed sinful acts, though there are those that do admit such, but they typically do so with the utmost difficulty, and often within their being, discount that very admission that they have so confessed. In other words, while they may well mouth the words that they are “sinful,” inside of their consciousness, however, they qualify such, by comparing themselves to others who are a lot worse than them and therefore much more sinful, and thereupon take solace that they despite having made mistakes that are classified as sin, haven’t really been all that bad, in comparison.
Regrettably, the above is a clear misunderstanding of what sinfulness actually is, for there isn’t really any good reason to envision sin as being every mistake that we have made, wittingly or unwittingly, but rather it is more appropriate to see sin as an estrangement from what we were created to be, and therefore incompatible with the good characteristics of God, and what we have been properly blessed with via the creation of our being. That is to say, sin is the conscious act of disobeying or ignoring what we know to be right and good, to take on the aura of that which is wrong and bad, of which, the ultimate person hurt the most, will be ourselves, for it is us, that must meet what we have done so as to counteract or correct such, no matter how long such a journey consequently takes.
Every time that we commit an act which is a contradiction to what is moral and right, we have alienated ourselves from our Creator. For a certainty, each of us has been gifted with free will, so as to provide us with the fair opportunity to do for ourselves and for others, great and noble acts, meant for the benefit of our fellow sojourners here on this earthly plane, or else primarily done for something that is selfish or the opposite of goodness The pathway that we take is nevertheless ours to own, for we are the actuators of what we actually do and say, therefore signifying that we are ones that do or don’t take those steps necessary for our enlightenment and therefore our true liberty and wisdom.
Indeed, sin is a mistake, of which, the biggest mistake of sinning, is that we have rejected Light for darkness, under the misimpression that we know best when in actuality, we do not. That which we know to do and is right, but that we subsequently fail to do, is sin, of which, that sin thus serves as a dividing line between us and our Creator, which therefore estranges us from God. Those though that wish to get right with God, are the very same that will turn from their sinful ways, with the sure understanding that every righteous act makes for a renewed connection to that which will unite us to that eternal sanctuary of justice, peace, and love.