Sin and Sinners

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Do people sin because they are sinners? Or, are they sinners because they sin?
 
The latter. A sinner is just one who sins, like a singer is one who sings and a teacher is one who teaches.
 
Both. I suppose its a question of semantics.

We’re prone to sin because we’re “sinners” ie. we’ve inherited original sin.

We act as sinners when we sin, due to our actions (or thoughts or words). You might just say we carry out our prediliction for sin.

It’s a bit like potential energy becoming kinetic energy when an apple falls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The energy was always there, but was only expressed when Galileo decided to act.

The potential to sin is always there. We’re sinners in waiting.
 
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What about original sin?
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I suppose one could say that someone under the influence of original sin is a sinner, but I don’t think I would. We don’t call an unbaptized child a sinner, for instance, though it is stained by original sin. If it is not yet making rational decisions, then it has not sinned.
 
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Do people sin because they are sinners? Or, are they sinners because they sin?
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Do humans goof up because they are human ? Or , are they human because they goof up ?

Or, I guess all that’s left is wondering if some humans never goof up. 😃
 
You mean sin mythology? Safe to say we would be speaking from the point which states evil is never supernatural. I think you may have an issue clearly defining good, it this where the non supernatural god analogy comes in with love?

Unless some new information was released since the noon news? Does this imply that there is only one principle of moral ethics?

dictionary.reference.com/browse/moral?s=t

Whom would that be, the collective enlightened ego without supernaturally manifested evil? Chicken or the egg?
 
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People sin because they choose to sin but they are not always totally responsible because there are often mitigating circumstances:
405 Although it is proper to each individual,295 original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam’s descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called “concupiscence”. Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ’s grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.
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