Reel Hacks
'Missing the Mark'
Old English synn "moral wrongdoing, injury, mischief, enmity, feud, guilt, crime, offense against God, misdeed," from Proto-Germanic *sundiō "sin" (source also of Old Saxon sundia, Old Frisian sende, Middle Dutch sonde, Dutch zonde, German Sünde "sin, transgression, trespass, offense," extended forms), probably ultimately "it is true," i.e. "the sin is real" (compare Gothic sonjis, Old Norse sannr "true"), from PIE *snt-ya-, a collective form from *es-ont- "becoming," present participle of root *es- "to be."
The semantic development is via notion of "to be truly the one (who is guilty)," as in Old Norse phrase verð sannr at "be found guilty of," and the use of the phrase "it is being" in Hittite confessional formula. The same process probably yielded the Latin word sons (genitive sontis) "guilty, criminal" from present participle of sum, esse "to be, that which is." Some etymologists believe the Germanic word was an early borrowing directly from the Latin genitive. Also see sooth.
Sin-eater is attested from 1680s. To live in sin "cohabit without marriage" is from 1838; used earlier in a more general sense. Ice hockey slang sin bin "penalty box" is attested from 1950.
To sin is simply to miss the mark. So, let me ask you a question. When you see the words 'I am', especially in the Bible, what does that mean to you? Do you read as if someone is telling you these things? What if it is you who wrote those words? Start with the 10 commandments. I am the lord your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before me. Who is me?
Again, I encourage you to suspend all disbelief momentarily. I've got a tale to tell, and I believe you are going to LOVE it!
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.