Sin as an attack on love, masking as authority

I wrote a few comments into

https://viroliegy.com/2022/07/26/the-virus-of-sin/

 That I appreciated writing.

This one prompted inclusion here:

 

Self-illusion is not a sin - for imagination can and does serve life.
But if self-illusion is given persistent priority over relational integrity it can rightly be called sin, for it must attack and undermine the witness for truth, and reap a destructive outcome.
That its wages is a world framed in death is the nature of an inversion or reversal.
That it rests on error is hidden and protected by every distortion and corruption of truth set as fear of disclosure to a self-convicted damnation.
The concept of sin as attack on love, was lost to attempts to manipulate by fear and threat as a result of no longer embodying a natural authority of love's extension and recognition, such as to seek control to cover for an inability and unwillingness to communicate.
The culture of blame or attack is so deeply set as to seek to run in stealth mode.
And seek the trappings of perceived authority in which to mask a dis-possesion of faculty and function in a frame of specialness by which to judge, denigrate and exclude.