And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
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