Posted on 01/07/2002 8:19:37 AM PST by dead
Sin? No. "I'm God"? No, just in the image of God, having His essense - like a drop of sea water and the Ocean or a sun beam and the Sun.
The only way God's creation makes sense to me is that it is perfect (first Biblical description) and that we do not percieve that perfection because of ignorance and superstition. We are confined to our limited, flawed (sinful), human world (second Biblical description - Adam & Eve) much like early Europeans were confined to their "flat world" because of ignorance and superstiton. That limited and flawed world view created their boundries until their mistake was realized and their consciousness expanded, allowing them to eventually experience the true reality of a round world.
I take the teachings of Jesus Christ to describe the true reality which we still do not accept because too many still process reality through ignorance and superstiton, relying on appearances and focusing on temporary human appetites. We are living in the spiritual equivalent of a "flat world" ignorantly defined by appearances and enslaving us in the illusion of a false reality.
me: "Ah, Gnosticism. Christian Science? "
you: no, humility.
Humility is one of those qualities which, ironically, if you have to say it of yourself, it probably isn't true. It is a quality best revealed by one's actions.
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