In the Church of Divine Vibration, we don’t speak much about “sin”, at least not in the way the word is commonly used. But the original Greek term often translated as sin, hamartia, means something far gentler and far more useful: to miss the mark. Not moral failure. Not corruption. Simply misalignment. A moment when we fall out of resonance with our deepest truth and divine nature.

From a CDV perspective, sin is better understood as dissonance. It arises when we live from fear, ego, ingrained habit, or illusion rather than presence and awareness. We miss the mark not because we are broken, but because we are human, conditioned and programmed by genetics, upbringing, trauma, and unconscious patterns. There is no shame in this. Dissonance is not a verdict; it is a signal. It tells us that something within us needs attention, compassion, or recalibration.

The response to misalignment is not punishment, confession, or guilt, it is re-tuning. Through practices like breathwork, meditation, movement, sacred dance, stillness, and honest reflection, we return to resonance with mind, body, and earth. In CDV, restoration replaces condemnation. We don’t cast out those who are out of tune, we help one another remember our notes. To live well is not to never miss the mark, but to notice when we have, and gently find our way back into alignment.