RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
September 24, 2020 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2020 at 8:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sin is very much and very strongly described as instinctual. We still maintain that we have instincts to good and instincts to bad, except in the case of utter or complete depravity. Without trying to litigate that particular issue, and being inclusive, it's commonly maintained that human beings are either partially capable or completely incapable, but never fully capable.
Sin is the proposition that there is something intrinsic and hereditary to human beings that makes this so. The claim that this something routinely compromises our moral agency. Not the specific act or the outcome, the underlying cause.
I want to stress again that the contents of sin in any specific telling may be in error - and we may all be in fundamental error of sins existence, this is a descriptive explanation of sin and morality. Insomuch as we are human and we take humans to be experts on being human - it's a perception that we share even if we use different words to describe it or fill the set with disparate contents.
Our bad thoughts and bad actions that arise out of the desire to mate, for example..can be intelligibly considered as a member of the set - but since it fails to exhaust all of the possible and experienced compulsions to bad thought and bad action, other things like itself, it's not sin. Sin is the thing that this member and all of the other members have in common. In a profound sense, our humanity itself is sin. Best intentions and all. This, because the list of uniquely human compulsions to evil will be directly transferable to a list of what makes humans, human.
Sin is the proposition that there is something intrinsic and hereditary to human beings that makes this so. The claim that this something routinely compromises our moral agency. Not the specific act or the outcome, the underlying cause.
I want to stress again that the contents of sin in any specific telling may be in error - and we may all be in fundamental error of sins existence, this is a descriptive explanation of sin and morality. Insomuch as we are human and we take humans to be experts on being human - it's a perception that we share even if we use different words to describe it or fill the set with disparate contents.
Our bad thoughts and bad actions that arise out of the desire to mate, for example..can be intelligibly considered as a member of the set - but since it fails to exhaust all of the possible and experienced compulsions to bad thought and bad action, other things like itself, it's not sin. Sin is the thing that this member and all of the other members have in common. In a profound sense, our humanity itself is sin. Best intentions and all. This, because the list of uniquely human compulsions to evil will be directly transferable to a list of what makes humans, human.
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