"Sin is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach
it–both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a missing of the mark,
a spoiling of goods, a staining of garments, a hitch in one's gait, a
wandering from the path, a fragmenting of the whole. Sin is what
culpably disturbs shalom. Sinful human life is a caricature of proper
human life."
Neal Plantinga
Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32399818#32409460
Abandoning the sick and needy is sin…