Entry #655416, added on 06-20-09 @ 11:27 am EDT
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| Sinfulness vs Purity | Entry #655416 |
I'm on this train of thought now, thanks to Collen McCollough, about sin and pride. Maybe it can be boiled down to this: As we struggle to become pure, or closer to God, our sins are magnified.
In a way it's best not to think too long about sin, or we'd be horrified at ourselves. We have to think of it a little to avoid becoming sociopaths, thieves, and malicious dictators. We have to distinguish from "a sin" and "sin" in order to have a just and orderly society. "A sin" is a mistake, a crime, a bad decision, a wrong attitude, a hurt, a foul, an insult, a lie, an ulterior motive, an evil plot, a lustful thought. "SIN" is the lack of perfection, the miss at god-likeness (think of a basketball hoop and backboard-everytime we miss the hoop that's SIN).
The more we know about SIN, the more we realize we are sinners and failures. So our pride in being good people and productive citizens falls away. We start to realize there's not much different between ourselves and those behind bars from the celestial point of view. Our pride allows us to think, 'I don't sin as much as the next guy because I know the things he's done, and he's done a whole lot more bad things than me'. Our white lies or gossip is not as heinous as murder, so our pride allows us to think we're better .
Each of us is responsible for only one person. Judging others is a sin in itself because that's God's job. Lucifer wanted God's job, too. So, we accept that we are sinners and try to get things in perspective. And, yes, we have to keep on asking forgiveness every day. |
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