Thorn:

Alec wrote: The idea that "sin" and "evil" are abstract and somewhat arbitrary is merely a human (and therefore faulty) perception. If God can be perfect by definition (for sake of argument), then "sin"

Somewhere in the above three lines, someone is making a hell of an asumption. See also "The Euthphro Question", plato.

A gentleman wrote to Southern Partisan magazine a few years ago and said "Real freedom is not the license to do whatever you want, but rather the liberty to do what you ought to do".

No, real freedom is being able to decide for yourself what you ought to do--or--who the hell decides what I ought to do?