Sin

Native pre-Islamic Persian word. Beyond Islam’s fitrah (innate purity) doctrine shared with Arabic, Zoroastrianism’s own Chinvat Bridge judgment - the soul’s deeds weighed, the bridge wide for the righteous and blade-narrow for the wicked - independently reinforces a deeds-weighing intuition in Persian culture from a second, older indigenous source. Romans 5’s federal-headship argument runs against both defaults at once.