What if everything you were taught about sin was designed to keep you ashamed, not free? In part 2 of our series on 1st John, we dig into a word that shows up 27 times in this short letter: hamartia — sin. The author of 1st John claims believers can rise above sin entirely, a claim that helped split the early church in two. This week we ask what sin actually is, trace 2,000 years of atonement theology from Origen to Anselm to the Reformers, and land on a healthier, more honest way to hold our own imperfection — without losing sight of who we really are: children of God, not sinners first.