This is what sin meant then, and therefore its real meaning now. Few understands this! Try to understand this if you don't already. REAL-ize this! It's implications are rather profound, especially as it is counter to the collective-agreement-meaning most carry with them when they use the term internally or externally.
It means 'you shot your arrow, and you missed the bulls eye.' Period. Maybe you envisioned a target that was not the target, or maybe you just suck at aiming (bad character), or maybe you just aren't perfect (original sin.) Anything additional including judgement or the tacking on of ancillary attributes such as 'good' or 'bad' is embellishment, narrative, story and hence lies of commission or omission when compared to the truth as it actually is - as God created it - as opposed to the dramatic story in our heads.
Life in a universe that was there before you were, and out of which you are made and hence inherited all its attributes and are connected to all of it, is really quite simple, though I admit it doesn't always appear that way. It is the appearance that is the lie. The appearance is 'The World,' yes it is fallen, but it's not real. The original sin is to mistake The World - the appearance - for 'the world' as it was created, and simply is.
All sins - pride, greed etc. etc. etc. find a common root: The sufferer (and committer) mistakes The World for the world, acts as though The World were the world, and in doing so, shoots off arrows in every crazy direction like a Samurai in an LSD hallucination. His behavior makes no sense to anyone except perhaps his fellows caught up in the same collective hallucination. That is the default state of human existence, and why history, as Steyn has said, is an ongoing cycle of farce followed by farce followed by tragedy.
Satan? He neither cheers the human nor hates the human. He stands by snickering, but not malignantly so. He didn't cause any of it, unless you were to say 'Satan, thy name is ignorance, blindness and delusion - and further - the will to remain so!'
“Satan? He neither cheers the human nor hates the human.”
Hogwash. Satan envies and despises man because we are the pinnacle God’s creation. Even though we were made “lower than the angels”, God has given us dominion (Psalm 8), rather than the angels, of whom Satan was one of the highest. That’s why he was “Johnny On the Spot” in the Garden, to try and throw a wrench in God’s plan by tempting man to sin right from the start.