“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)
Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for him is not a moral failure; it is not even disobedience. Disobedience is a consequence but not the cause. The cause is: turning away from God, and from God as the highest good, as the love with which God loves Himself through us. For this reason, since sin has this character -- if you say "sins", it is easily dissolved into moral sins; but sin is first of all basically the… turning away from God. For this very reason, no moral remedy is possible. Only one remedy is possible: return to God. But this of course is possible only in the power of God.
-- Paul Tillich (1886-1965) in “A History of Christian Thought”
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