The Courage to Be Protestant by David F. Wells

Sin is described at missing the target Romans 3:9; 7:5
Falling short of the standard or transgressing boundaries Romans 2:23; 5:20; Gal 3:19

The target missed, the path abandoned the authority defied, the law transgressed are in each and every case GOD’s.

Sin is about taking issue with God, defying Him, refusing to submit to Him and displacing Him from the center of existence. We are disaffected with His rule, resent His claims on our lives and are hostile to Hid truth in the Word, determined to pursue our own values goals and pleasures in defiance of what he has said. Freedom from all that God is and all the He has said turns out to be an illusion. When we freed ourselves in these ways beginning with the fall we fell headlong into a dark captivity both to our own selves and beyond that to the powers of darkness.

It is about replacing God with self.