[Hermann the Cherusker]

That is the legalistic mindset of the west -- sin is something akin to breaking the law, rather than rejection of God. There is no love in it -- but simple (dis)obedience.

I warned you that western theology is throughly legalistic in its language.

However, isn't a voluntary failure to obey the law nothing more than a rejection of the lawgiver? I don't see how this isn't two ways of describing the same thing.

[kosta50]

However, isn't a voluntary failure to obey the law nothing more than a rejection of the lawgiver?

Our Lord Jesus Christ remninds us that of our relationship with God and His "Laws," more precisely, Commandments: love thy God with all your heart and mind and soul; and your neighbor as thyself.

When we are converted in our heart, we fall in love and "obey" God out of love, not as a legal obligation.