Reply #12: How can an inclination be a "sin"?

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Not being a believer, this topic is little more than an intellectual game for me, but if we're looking for consistency, wouldn't a more consistent notion of sin involve a person giving into and acting upon "bad" desires and inclinations, not merely having those desires and inclinations?

After all, if you simply don't ever have even the slightest inclination to do anything a particular religion would deem morally wrong, virtue would be an effortless thing, hardly worthy of special recognition or reward. You'd be free from sin the same way a rock is free from sin.