What is sin?

Vanity is a sin, right? To have pride in your looks. But I reckon that not taking care in your appearance or dressing against the common fashion is also in itself vanity, because in those things there is a sort of pride in not dressing up like others- a pride in being different, so surely that too is vanity.

Gluttony also- eating until you're stuffed so full you can barely move can't be the only form gluttony takes. What's to say that eating only a little, but only of choice foods- even if they aren't “posh” foods can't also be called gluttony?

Greed is another. We think the definition of greed is having it all and earning more than enough to keep it all, but that's not it. You can have very little and be greedy, or have a lot and not be greedy. Greed is independent of what you have; it's not being content with what you've got. God calls us to be content whether we've got everything or nothing. This is not to say that saving up for something you want is bad- because it's not. But having it as a goal, “once I've got this, then I'll be content”, or “this is all I want” is greed. Once you have this, what's to say that once you've got it, you won't want something else? That is greed. As long as you are content with what you've got, and don't seek security in it, then you are living as God asks in that area of your life.

Anyway, more to come later one I've thought & prayed about it some more.