The phrase "avoiding sin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing moral behavior, ethics, or religious teachings where the focus is on refraining from wrongdoing.
Example: "In his teachings, the pastor emphasized the importance of avoiding sin to lead a righteous life."
Alternatives: "steering clear of sin" or "refraining from sin.".
The EU is only going to face more such dilemmas, as public opinion wakes up to the fact that climate change demands more than avoiding sins of excess.
Men are sinful, men will not avoid sin (why should they, since they are predestined to Hell or Heaven whatever they do?), men must be made to be good.
British sharia isn't about chopping off hands, but complicated financial instruments to avoid sin of usury.
In fact, the reason to avoid sin (Step 4) is that it separates you from his energy current: "It is as if the electric lines to your house in Phoenix were severed and you were cut off from the immense power generators at Hoover Dam".
Unless the soul is moved by grace, it is helpless to do good or avoid sin.
Our best hope to avoid sin is to will what is right for the right reasons.
In other words, unless the soul is moved by grace, it is helpless to avoid sin, a position pretty close to the opinion of Luther that he had attacked in De libero arbitrio (1524).
Despite its costs for the embodied creature, sorrow can nevertheless be quite a good thing, both because it motivates us to avoid sin, and because it is more virtuous to feel sorrow in the face of evil than not.
Since reasoning which went beyond the probable was virtually unattainable in many moral contexts, an agent satisfied her or his epistemic duties by relying on sound probable reasoning, thus acquiring a subjective certainty of having done all that could be expected of an agent to avoid sin (Gardeil 1911; Schüssler 2003, 50).
Surely this is not encouragement to avoid sin but rather motivation to conceal sin.
