Psalm 51:5
"5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me."
If mankind was conceived in sin, that is the same thing as being born in human skin. That means that no one in this life, escapes either: skin or sin.
Yet, our Christian faith declares that sin is degrading and abasing of man; while, godliness, sin's opposite, glorifies, exalts man. This traditional creed also asserts that certain thoughts, words or deeds are sinful.
The prevailing gloss represents that mankind "fell," because of Adam's "fall" in the Garden of Eden, after eating fruit, from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, with his wife, Eve. This, God had forbidden.
Yet, Psalm 51:5 says man was both conceived and born in sin, every man. This implies that no conduct of man or of woman was necessary to bring on sin; that sin is inherent in man and in woman, just by being alive, innate. That verse absolves Adam and Eve.
What an oxymoron, or compressed paradox, this reverberating irony is, that mankind's progenitors are absolved, vindicated, by Psalm 51:5; yet, their lineal descendants are condemned by the very same verse!
Simply put, the so-called "fall" of man is oxymoronic, since man was 'born in sin,' under one traditional, orthodox view. But, under another, equally traditional orthodox view, man's disobedience to God is the sole cause of sin. So, which is it? Both, either, or none?
Whatever its definition among men, it matters not to God, who as Jesus says, "makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and causes it to rain on the just and the unjust." Matt. 5:45
Romans 8:39 assures us that nothing shall separate us from the love of God; neither height nor depth; indeed, nothing in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
That particularly includes sin!
Saturday, June 21, 2014
OF 'SIN'
OF SIN
Psalm 51:5
"5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me."
If mankind was conceived in sin, that is the same thing as being born in human skin. That means that no one in this life, escapes either: skin or sin.
Yet, our Christian faith declares that sin is degrading and abasing of man; while, godliness, sin's opposite, glorifies, exalts man. This traditional creed also asserts that certain thoughts, words or deeds are sinful.
The prevailing gloss represents that mankind "fell," because of Adam's "fall" in the Garden of Eden, after eating fruit, from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, with his wife, Eve. This, God had forbidden.
Yet, Psalm 51:5 says man was both conceived and born in sin, every man. This implies that no conduct of man or of woman was necessary to bring on sin; that sin is inherent in man and in woman, just by being alive, innate. That verse absolves Adam and Eve.
What an oxymoron, or compressed paradox, this reverberating irony is, that mankind's progenitors are absolved, vindicated, by Psalm 51:5; yet, their lineal descendants are condemned by the very same verse!
Simply put, the so-called "fall" of man is oxymoronic, since man was 'born in sin,' under one traditional, orthodox view. But, under another, equally traditional orthodox view, man's disobedience to God is the sole cause of sin. So, which is it? Both, either, or none?
Whatever its definition among men, it matters not to God, who as Jesus says, "makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and causes it to rain on the just and the unjust." Matt. 5:45
Romans 8:39 assures us that nothing shall separate us from the love of God; neither height nor depth; indeed, nothing in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
That particularly includes sin!
Psalm 51:5
"5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me."
If mankind was conceived in sin, that is the same thing as being born in human skin. That means that no one in this life, escapes either: skin or sin.
Yet, our Christian faith declares that sin is degrading and abasing of man; while, godliness, sin's opposite, glorifies, exalts man. This traditional creed also asserts that certain thoughts, words or deeds are sinful.
The prevailing gloss represents that mankind "fell," because of Adam's "fall" in the Garden of Eden, after eating fruit, from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, with his wife, Eve. This, God had forbidden.
Yet, Psalm 51:5 says man was both conceived and born in sin, every man. This implies that no conduct of man or of woman was necessary to bring on sin; that sin is inherent in man and in woman, just by being alive, innate. That verse absolves Adam and Eve.
What an oxymoron, or compressed paradox, this reverberating irony is, that mankind's progenitors are absolved, vindicated, by Psalm 51:5; yet, their lineal descendants are condemned by the very same verse!
Simply put, the so-called "fall" of man is oxymoronic, since man was 'born in sin,' under one traditional, orthodox view. But, under another, equally traditional orthodox view, man's disobedience to God is the sole cause of sin. So, which is it? Both, either, or none?
Whatever its definition among men, it matters not to God, who as Jesus says, "makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and causes it to rain on the just and the unjust." Matt. 5:45
Romans 8:39 assures us that nothing shall separate us from the love of God; neither height nor depth; indeed, nothing in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
That particularly includes sin!