In preparing for my next year new year resolution, which is to Live above Sin (this year resolution was to increase spiritually, and I thank God that I made some good progress), I spent quite sometime in meditation and quiet time. I arrived at the following analysis of Sin

Beauty and Perfection leads to Desire
Desire leads to Acquisition
Acquisition leads to Pride
Pride leads to Materialism (more acquisition)
Materialism leads to Love of Money
Love of Money ===== root of all Evil
Sin ===== Evil

So logically, so it seems to me, the root of sin (evil) is Beauty and Perfection. BUT BEAUTY AND PERFECTION IS DIVINE AND ETERNAL. It is the delight of the spirit and all throughout the Bible, God and heaven and the glory of life afterward are described in excellence beauty and perfection. So Beauty and Perfection, to me, which is divine and eternal cannot be the root of sin.

Therefore the next is Desire. Can desire be the root of sin?

Our spirits is created to delight in beauty and perfection (because our spirit is of divine origin where eternal beauty and perfection reside). So can our spirits delight in beauty and perfection of earthly things (which i think is normal considering that the spirit is of divine nature) without our flesh desiring the beautiful and perfect earthly things. For desire, as analysed above, leads to sin.

Can man live without desire in the face of beauty and perfection (of earthly things around us)

Dear Fellow nairalanders, i greatly welcome your opinion, disapproval, expansion or rejection of my analysis. My goal is to reach an understanding, and I beleive that diverse view is necessary for tru understanding.

So, how do you define Sin?

Did you have a New Year resolution last year?
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@nimshi

I do not strive to define but to understand. Sin might mean so many things to so many people in so many cultures and societies. I am only trying to build on the definition in the bible about the root of evil. I only know that sin is of the evil one. so sin is evil

I just roll it backward to arrive at desire. If you do not agree with me. I will be more than happy to look at your own analysis

I asked what Sin meant to you.

'Cos you've built this scheme with "acquisition", "pride", "materialism", "love of money", "root of all Evil", and "Evil". If you do understand, it should be easy as pie to define. Without a definition of "sin", there's no way to have a fruitful discussion. There're starightforward examples that'll show things aren't as black-and-white as they may appear to be, and one early step to engage the clarity of your thoughts/proposition is to carve out what you meant by using the word "sin".
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Its nice to see the logic you are trying to follow but when you have wrong premises, you come up with wrong conclusions.