According to Christian teachings, the normal collective state of humanity is one of “original sin.” Sin is a word that has been greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted. Literally, translated from the Greek in which the New Testament was written, to sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point of human existence. It means to live unskillfully, blindly, and thus to suffer and cause suffering. Again the term, stripped of its cultural baggage and misinterpretation, points to the dysfunction inherent in the human condition.
Eckhart Tolle in “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” p. 19
