Original Sin revisited | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Here is a good article relative to an old concept that has troubled me = Original Sin. Commonly we assure we as humans "inherited the propensity to sin" and cannot help ourselves. Some use it as an excuse. Others do their best to do better in their lifetime.

    It fails to deal with the Greek basic word picture of "harmartia." It is a sense of separation, not a set of rules.

    If you are separated from God / your better self / other people through hate and derision / the care of this planet God gave us, then you are as much in sin as a drug addict or thief.

    I make the following comment and FB will be following it:

    I am now 68 and have enough life experience to comment with a degree of wisdom. After a long journey with intelligentsia, Augustine says something simple and real to me: "Almighty God, himself supremely good, would never allow anything evil to invade his works, unless he were so almighty and so good that he can bring good even out of evil" (Enchiridion 11).

    Looking around at the world and politics in the US, we have cycled to the cynical and mean with a great division between rich and poor. The homophobia and racial hate are at a level far worse then the hopes of those involved in integration. We are about back to square one with the hate of a half-white President proving my point. Kennedy was making changes not wanted by the "powers that be." Similar hate was focused on him for withdrawing from Viet Nam and sending Federal troops to enforce the integration at the University of Alabama. Then shots rang out in Dallas creating one of my most shameful days as an American Citizen and college freshman.

    God is trying to bring some good out of a busted economy and new hate, now extended to homosexuals.

    Here is my question: "Why can't we help him by immolating his Only Begotten Son?"