“The word sin is derived from a Greek word and is actually an archery term - it means to miss the bullseye, and that's a that's a lovely metaphor for sin, I think, because it's associated so tightly with the idea of goal direction and aim. Because there's a metaphorical idea that's embedded in that, in that image, and that is that a human being is something that specifies a target, which we do all the time with our eyes. Our eyes are target specifying mechanisms. You know, we have very precise central focal vision, and we use our focal vision to target the aim of our behavior, and so we are aiming creatures - it's built right into our body; we're built on a hunting platform; we're aiming creatures and we do that cognitively as well as behaviorally. And so, as hunters we take aim at moving targets, and we're very good at bringing them down. And we've been doing that for who knows how long, millions of years really, even chimpanzees are carnivorous, by the way, and we split from them about 6 million years ago, so we've been hunting and aiming for a very, very long period of time and we still have aims in our life, right? And that's how we describe them - what are you aiming at; or, what are your aims; what are your goals; what's your target; it's all based on not hunting metaphor.”
Jordan B. Peterson,
Biblical Series XII: The Great Sacrifice:
Abraham and Isaac (00:21:00)
https://youtu.be/-yUP40gwht0