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Deep Seated Beliefs
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Deep Seated Beliefs I have tried very hard to keep religion out of my blogs on this site, mainly for fear of offending anyone. A Wicca friend of mine told me that we are all going up the same mountain, just taking a different path. I think that line is truer than even he knows. My approach to religion might not work for anyone else but me, but when it boils down it is only between myself and the Almighty. As long as the Maker accepts my humble offerings, that is all that should matter. I feel compelled to write this in response to a blog that was written by InstantKarma (one of my favorite people on this site). [post 1479719]. Towards the end of the above blog she talks about how her parents taught us that sin has made us uglier. I violently disagree with that. Let me explain to you why. First of all I view sin as a purely spiritual thing. True, there may be physical signs (like a drug addicts track marks, ect. I do believe that things like that ARE sins... but that is neither here nor there). Physical appearance is just the phenome that display. The Maker gave us a genetic blueprint... and sin or not... you get built to those specifications. Sin has nothing to do with what we look like. Sin does taint the soul though. The various religious faiths out there all have proscribed methods of removing the taint left by sin. The methods differ, but the reasoning is the same: The Maker offers us forgiveness from those sins. (The verse in the Bible [NIV] reads: Though your sins be as scarlet, you shall be white as snow. Another verse [NIV] states: I will cast your sins from you as far as East is from the West, and shall remember them no more.) Kinda silly isnt it? The Maker is suppose to be perfect, and a good memory is kinda important to that definition (cf Descartes proof for the existance of matter). Still, I can understand why the Maker would chose to forget. Pardon my patriochal leanings at this point but, the Bible states: Even an evil man knows how to give good gifts to his . I guess it's easy for me to view the Maker as a Father figure. No, its not because I honestly believe the Maker to be male. (actually, I view the Maker as more gender neutral than anything) It is because I know what it is like to have a good father. Every time I failed anything as a , my father's first question to me was: Did you do your best? If I had, then nothing else mattered. We found a way to work around whatever problems arose because of my failure and continued to move on. My personal belief is that the Maker has a similar attitude towards sin. It's going to happen. As long as we try not to, the forgivness is always going to be there. Just my 2 bits. I apologize if I offened anyone. For some reason, I just felt it was important to say. D Via Con Carne!  |
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7/1/2008 9:34 am |
I see what you are saying. And I absolutely agree with your friend the Wiccan. However, you cannot deny to me that if sin had never entered this earth we might have never known such physical ugliness as congenital deformations, or something even as simple as the loss of eyesight. I refuse to believe that God's perfection would still allow us physical imperfections such as physical ugliness of one form or another if we were all perfect spiritually. What reason would we have to become ugly?
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7/1/2008 9:36 am |
Oh the other hand, if we were perfect would our minds really comprehend ugly? Would we recognize physical shortcomings in others or would we love blindly, always? I chose to comment separately because these are both two different thoughts that have battling each other out in my head. I will let you know which one wins! 
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