RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
September 28, 2020 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2020 at 11:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 28, 2020 at 11:35 am)Greatest I am Wrote:Then we repeat with the compulsion to compete as sin - and I have all of the same reservations as before. The absence of evil in any competition, and the presence of evil outside of competition.(September 25, 2020 at 12:30 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: We're also evolved from fish. Laying aside the futility of pointing to other animals - sin would not be the thing that disturbs the peace, sin is the reason that we desire the thing that disturbs the peace.
Then the compulsion to mate, in your telling - right or wrong- , is sin. I really don't have anything to add here that I haven't already discussed. I don't think it's a good description of sin. Sin seems to be operative even when the desire to mate is not. Additionally, the compulsion to mate as sin leaves all mating creatures evil by default, which is going to be an even harder sell when we get into the specifics of this or that organism's reproduction. Whole lotta sinful grass out there filling the wind with evil seed.
The compulsion to mate is not evil. It is natural. The competing is what creates the evil as a loser is created.
Quote:Even if you want to call it evil or a sin, it is necessary to our continuing existence. I small evil within a greater good must be seen as good as it is necessary.Necessity is not equivalent to morality, and a plainer reading of a necessary evil is not that it is, therefore, a good - but that it is...necessary..... and evil.
Regards
DL
We're back round to the fortunate catastrophe we began with. If man hadn't sinned we couldn't be saved. If we didn't compete, we'd be dead.
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