Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that certainly we’re going with what the Greek says. And I also want to add something before I do anything else, which is this noun and this. Both “trespasses and sins.” Noun not verb. We’ve been taught here, we have a word for sin’s canopy, missing the mark hamartia. When we get into – and we will studying paraptomasin we’re also going to need some other words. Because, let me write them in English phonetically. We have hamartia; we have that word up there, which is paraptoma the root of it. There’s another one, which is parabasis. Those are our three words that we’re going to contend with throughout Paul’s writing. But that’s not – it’s pretty simple. But if it’s not complicated, it will become complicated because we have other words that will enter into the equation.
We already saw from the Romans Series words like asebian, ungodly; adikian, unrighteous or against, the opposite way; anomia, against the law. There are words like akia, which is evil; poneria (or I think that’s the way it’s pronounced), evil, moral wickedness. So we have many different words. And this is important for us because we’ve at least defined this hamartia as “we all fall short and miss the mark.” That’s our whole condition. Now only I would open this can of worms. As I began to study for this, I re-opened Romans 5 because Romans 5 talks about how by one man sin entered the world, that one man being Adam. And guess what? In that one chapter of Romans all these words are being used and it’s quite a study to see this hamartia; and I’m just going to touch on this briefly.