The Bible says ‘sin’ is the biggest problem we humans have. What is sin? In the Bible, this word ‘sin’ means more than just ‘moral evil’. Sin more accurately means disobedience against God in a number of ways. We offend God by ‘sinning’ against him when we lie, cheat, steal, hurt others, and act in disobedience towards God’s universal moral laws. All people are guilty of sin. Understanding sin will take more pages to explain in the rest of this book—but before we understand sin in detail, let’s first look at the big picture.

The Bible says that the biggest consequence of our ‘sin problem’ is that it stops us from having any kind of positive relationship with God. The presence of sin, which is in humans from birth, automatically makes us God’s enemies. This is except for infants, who cannot be accused of rejecting God. For all else, sin eternally divides us and God. Because sin dwells in us, we’re automatically unable to be connected with God. In fact, sin completely disconnects us from positive relationship with God.

We can see this in the verse mentioned. In Isaiah 59:2, ‘iniquity’ is used as another word for sin. It shows that human sin and God can’t co-exist—that sin separates us and God. Subscribe by email to learn in more detail how sin causes people to be eternally separated from God and justly punished after death.