Embracing grace 4 - Cracked Eikons

We are Eikons created in the image of God, but we have sinned and therefore become cracked Eikons. This leads into McKnight's discussion on sin, which the following is just a highlight.
The traditional definition of sin is "any failure to perform the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature." McKnight says this is true, but thinks it is too limiting. It makes sin simply breaking the law of God and doesn't deal with relationships. He says, "The 'genius' of sin is that it is first and foremost about one's relationship to God and others. Sin is a relational issue and as such transcends the legal issue." A couple of more statements are; (1) sin is clearly the breaking of a law, but more deeply it is a violation of loving God or others, (2)it is anything that breaks union with God or communion with others, anything that is unloving, and anything that wants to establish any of these breaks of union as an earthly system.
Broading the meaning of sin helps explain to me why sin can reak such havoc and it is so difficult to correct or make amends.