Wednesday, July 28, 2004

cancer of goodness: echoing my own thoughts elsewhere...

cool article about the origin of 'sin'... or rather a proper understanding of it... very short indeed... just a thought...

mike devries and i have thought of this much... that perhaps the hebraic understanding allows for -- if not demands -- an understanding of evil that does not come from other (ie. satan) but rather from the cancer of goodness...

so, you begin with something beautiful, whole, healthy... and when mis-used turns into something sub-par, something off the mark, something 'sinful'... so what if, and just go with me on this, what if we have created satan (and i could go there some other time) as a personification of evil... just to have a scapegoat, someone to pin it on?... this initiator and promoter of 'bad' things?...

okay, so perhaps instead of good and evil we have good things in proper place and proper time and good things in improper places and times?... like murder, obviously bad... but death in and of itself is not bad, but the improper things surrounding murder?... maybe lustful thoughts is a better example... so loving the design of a woman is not bad, but in improper place, it can be unhealthy, unwhole, sinful?...

just thoughts... more later...

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