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Sin 34439 . World Powers Say "Peace security!' then sudden destrucandSafety" as Final Event tion is to be instantly upon themjust as the pang of distress upon1 Thess . 5 :3 "Whenever it is a pregnant woman, and they willthat they are saying `Peace and by no means escape ."SinDEFINITIONJehovah God sets his own high standard of righteousness, the gloryof God, as a mark of perfection that all his creatures are expectedand required to maintain . Missing or failing to meet this mark iscalled sin . "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God ."(Rom . 3 :23) So the Scriptures further say of sin, "Everyone whopractices sin is also practicing lawlessness, and so sin is lawlessness .""All unrighteousness is sin ; and yet there is a sin that does not incurdeath ." (1 John 3 :4 ; 5 :17) Hence there are two kinds of sins, Scripturallyspeaking : 1 . Inherited, which "does not incur death", i .e.,from which there is hope of being released ; 2. Willful, which bringsa. sentence of everlasting destruction . The Greek word for sin originallymeant to miss, as to miss one's road, and later came to meanto fail of doing, as to miss one's point, to go wrong . The Hebrewword for sin also originally meant to miss, hence to fail ; for example,Judges 20 :16 ; Proverbs 8 :36 ; 19 :2, footnote .Adam Met Standard of PerfectionWhen CreatedGen . 1 :27, 31 "And God createdman in his own image, in theimage of God created he him ;male and female created hethem. And God saw everythingthat he had made, and, behold,it was very good . And there wasevening and there was morning,the sixth day ."Deut . 32 :4 "The Rock, his workis perfect ; for all his ways arejustice ."1 Cor . 11 :7 "For a man . . . isGod's image and glory ; but thewoman is man's glory ."God Set Mark of Perfection inEden, 4025 B .C .Gen . 2 :8, 16, 17 "And JehovahGod planted a garden eastwardin Eden ; and there he put theman whom he had formed . AndJehovah God commanded theman, saying, Of every tree of thegarden thou mayest freely eat :but of the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil, thou shalt noteat of it : for in the day thatthou eatest thereof thou shaltsurely die ."Adam and Eve's Sin a LiteralEating of Tree and Not an Actof Illicit IntercourseGen. 1 :28 "And God blessedthem : and God said unto them,Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenishthe earth, and subdue it ;and have dominion over the fishof the sea, and over the birdsof the heavens, and over everyliving thing that moveth uponthe earth ."Gen. 3 :6 "And when the womansaw that the tree was goodfor food, and that it was a delightto the eyes, and that thetree was to be desired to makeone wise, she took of the fruitthereof, and did eat ; and shegave also unto her husband withher, and he did eat."