No such thing

"No such thing" is the title of Mirabai Starr's cover article in the Summer 2017 issue of The Mendicant, the newsletter of Richard Rohr's Center for Action and Contemplation which looks at Christian mystic Julian of Norwich's take on sin.

Julian description of her experience of the Divine:

I did not see any sin. I believe that sin has no substance, not a particle of being, and cannot be detected at all except by the pain it causes. It is only the pain that has substance, for a while, and it serves to purify us, and make us know ourselves and ask for mercy.

Starr adds (emphasis mine):

Julian informs us that the suffering we cause ourselves through our acts of greed and unconsciousness is the only punishment we endure. God, who is All-Love, is “incapable of wrath,” and so it is a complete waste of time, Julian realized, to wallow in guilt. The truly humble thing to do when we have stumbled is to hoist ourselves to our feet as swiftly as we can and rush into the arms of God, where we will remember who we really are. ... 

Sin is nothing but separation from our Divine Source, and separation from the Holy One is nothing but illusion. We are always and forever connected in love with our Beloved. Therefore sin is not real; only love is real.