Sorry, but the terms “punishment” and “healing” don’t really seem like a simple difference of semantics. Someone “punished” would be locked behind bars in jail serving a sentence being in constant fear of being attacked by other prisoners - remaining very careful with the soap; someone being “healed” on the other hand would be in a hospital with 24/7 care by nurses, doctors and visits from family members and friends - everyone there to help & encourage him. Two totally different situations.
Only to those who view it that way.
I can be healed in jail. I can live in fear and realize that I used to be that way. I can be injured and still treated. I can be punished in a hospital. I can be punished to work in a hospital. I can be brutilized getting treatment in a hospital.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.
(Footnote: Lawlessness: a reference to the activity of the antichrist, so it is expressed as hostility toward God and a rejection of Christ. The author goes on to contrast the states of sin and righteousness. Christians do not escape sin but realize that when they sin they cease to have fellowship with God. Virtue and sin distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil.)
Those who sin brake God’s Law.
Etymology
The word
sin derives from
Old English synn, recorded in use as early as the
9th century.
[1] The same root appears in several other Germanic languages, e.g.
Old Norse synd, or
German Sünde. There is presumably a Germanic root
sun(d)jō (literally “it is true”).[2] The word may derive, ultimately, from **es-, one of the
Proto-Indo-European roots that meant “
to be,” and is a present participle, “
being.”
Latin, also has an old present participle of
esse in the word
sons, sont-, which came to mean “
guilty” in Latin.
citation needed The root meaning would appear to be, “
it is true;” that is, “
the charge has been proven.”
The
Greek word
hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is usually translated as
sin in the
New Testament. In
Classical Greek, it means “
to miss the mark” or “
to miss the target” which was also used in Old English archery.
[3] In
Koine Greek, which was spoken in the time of the New Testament, however, this translation is not adequate.
[4] In other research, this word has been associated with the “hem” of a garment.
citation needed
“
Sin” was also the name of the Babylonian/Akkadian moon god. Some students in recent times have postulated a connection with the modern English word "sin"
citation needed , but this is likely a
folk-etymology. Note that the Babylonian/Akkadian deity name Sin is derived from the Sumerian moon god Nanna -
Suen. In the Sumerian myth “Enlil and Ninlil”
[4] Suen is trapped in the underworld. Sons of Enlil and Ninlil are given as substitutes to allow for the ascent of Suen.
answers.com/topic/sin (The Wikipedia exerpt) Same article, further on:
Jewish views of sin
Judaism regards the violation of divine commandments to be a sin. Judaism teaches that sin is an act, and not a state of being. Humankind was not created with an inclination to do evil, but has that inclination “from his youth”(
Genesis 8:21). It should be noted that if indeed this was the case, that God had created humans sinfully, it would criticize the absolute goodness of God that all three Abrahamic religions profess. People do have the ability to master this inclination (Genesis 4:7) and choose good over evil (conscience)(
Psalm 37:27).
[5] Judaism uses the term “sin” to include violations of
Jewish law that are not necessarily a lapse in morality. According to the Jewish encyclopedia, “Man is responsible for sin because he is endowed with free will (“behirah”); yet he is by nature frail, and the tendency of the mind is to evil: “For the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Gen. viii. 21; Yoma 20a; Sanh. 105a). Therefore God in His mercy allowed people to repent and be forgiven.”
[6] Judaism holds that all people sin at various points in their lives, and hold that
God tempers
justice with mercy.
The generic
Hebrew word for any kind of sin is
avera (literally: transgression). Based on verses in the
Hebrew Bible, Judaism describes three levels of sin. There are three categories of a person who commits an avera. The first one is someone who does an avera intentionally, or “B’mezid.” This is the most serious category. The second is one who did an avera by accident. This is called “B’shogeg,” and while the person is still responsible for their action it is considered less serious. The third category is someone who is a “Tinok Shenishba”, which is a person who was raised in an environment that was assimilated or non-Jewish, and is not aware of the proper Jewish laws, or halacha. This person is not held accountable for their actions.
- Pesha (deliberate sin; in modern Hebrew: crime) or Mered (lit.: rebellion) - An intentional sin; an action committed in deliberate defiance of God; (Strong’s Concordance :H6588 (פשע pesha’, peh’shah). According to Strong it comes from the root
H6586); rebellion, transgression, trespass.
- Avon (lit.: iniquity) - This is a sin of lust or uncontrollable emotion. It is a sin done knowingly, but not done to defy God; (Strong’s Concordance :H5771 (avon, aw-vone). According to Strong it comes from the root H5753); meaning perversity, moral evil:–fault, iniquity, mischief.
- Cheit - This is an unintentional sin, crime or fault. (Strong’s Concordance :H2399 (חַטָּא chate). According to Strong it comes from the root khaw-taw H2398, H2403) meaning “to miss, to err from the mark (speaking of an archer), to sin, to stumble.”
Furthermore, I am not trying to convince you of anything and I am not trying to prove things through empirical evidence. I will say this much–I believe that purgatory is the one issue that could be solved relatively quickly if the Churches ever became serious about re-unification. I wish I could say as much about Filioque, IC, and Infallibility/supremacy.