Yet another view of 'original sin'
Submitted by Ford Prefect on January 16 2001 18:12:47
In reply to Explaining why I am asking questions submitted by Sheesh! on January 16 2001 00:01:22
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You're getting a regular smorgasbord of ideas here. I thing God made each of us as his sons and daughters. I think he endowed us with all the goodness we could possibly need. I think he loves each of us perfectly. But, it seems each of us doubts that goodness and doubts that love. We then seek verification of our self-worth of in other ways......as if being a son or daughter of God wasn't sufficient. What we eventually find though is that these other ways are empty....devoid of the goodness we were seeking. We are fooled into looking for something where it simply isn't to be found. We are told every day, that we can only have self-worth through success, popularity, money, etc. And we fall for it.....only to be disappointed. Ironically, the worth we seek has been there all along. We need to be saved from our illusions. Likewise, we seek the perfect love of God in his creatures, each of whom can provide a partial bit of that love, but not the perfection we desire. Indeed, I believe God to be the object of our loneliness, just as food is the object of our hunger, or water the object of our thirst. Our brokeness is manifested by our looking for good in the wrong places; the original sin. But we can be saved from this by recoginizing the original blessing each of us has been given.....our sonship of God. Jesus fully realized his sonship and showed us how what kind of life we can lead with that realization. He showed us that the original blessing even transcends death.....and did it in the most concrete way we could imagine. Jesus returns us to the original blessing. ---Ford |
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