Being in Life: The Elimination of Original Sin

Alan Anderson Christopher

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Is Original Sin a metaphysical reality or does its existence arises out of the imbalance in our own souls? If it is the latter, perhaps we can free ourselves from this burden by correcting the mistake of our imbalance and thus begin to live life. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic tradition, that vein of spiritual creativity of the philosopher and poet. His quest has been to define and express an eternal romantic reality from which a man and a woman could together stand in their difference and create a living universe of procreative love. Mr. Anderson began these writings in 1971. The first writings were published in 1985. On a personal note, when Mr. Anderson was asked to describe the writings and what he felt their message was he responded, "Spiritual procreation. Mankind has yet to distinguish the two sexes on the spiritual level. In this failure lies the root of our problems and why we cannot yet touch the eternal together. The message of man and woman balance brings each of us together in love with our eternal other half right now."

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• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 29 août 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781622871452
• Langue: English

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Being In Life: The Elimination of Original Sin
Christopher Alan Anderson


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Being In Life: The Elimination of Original Sin



Christopher Alan Anderson
Being In Life: The Elimination of Original Sin
Copyright 2012 Christopher Alan Anderson
ISBN 978-1622871-45-2

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In the first book of the Bible we are told how man (man and woman) fell from g r ace with “God.” In Genesis 3, there i s the story of the tree of go o d and evil and how Adam and Eve we r e instructed n o t to eat of the fruit of t hat tree. But they diso b e yed “God” and so were banished from the Garden of Eden to live a life o f toil and sorr o w. And so we have the fir s t or original sin, a sin that continues to plague all of mankind. This sin i s actually a disobed i ence— one ref u sing, f o r whate v er r ea s on, to obey the rules of life, t he o rder of all things. “G o d,” philosophically speaking, is an o rder. T h ere is a “what is” to things. We just don't get to i nvent our own “rules” or “reality.” Our task is t o define a nd align to metaphysi c al r e ality. When we don't, we lose our bal a nce. We find ou r selves in sin. Sin is imbalance. In imbalan c e we lose ou r spiritual authenti c i t y. Sin (imbalance) pre v e nts us from bein g i n life . We cannot be authentic to who we are for, you see, we a r e un d er the burden of sin. We hear all the t i me people say, “I just want to be myself; I just want to be who I am.” But it is a no go for the sin/imbalance is cast upon on e 's soul. Until that sin is rooted out one can't really be o n e s elf as it we r e —f r ee fr o m si n . The idea behind Christianity is that there is a way to cleanse o nese l f from th i s sin, and that is thr ou gh a belief in Je su s as Chris t . We are to b elieve that “God” (John 3: 16) sent his Holy Son to save us from our sins, and t h at we w i ll have everlasting life. I wo n der, is that what one fundame nt ally is—a belie v er? Is o ne's essential soul/nature th a t of a belie v er o r is the r e a deeper un d erpi n ning t o things th a t explains ou r true essential natu re . Maybe we should ask, what w as our nat u re befo r e t h e fall from g race? Or let u s ask it this way, what would be our nature if we w ere without o r iginal s in? Being in life is a bout being as who we are as a true soul essence. T here is not h ing that says we must be forever un d e r the bur d en of some original sin. But we don't really understand w h at the sin was, or is, so we continue to play it out regard l e ss of the Christian pr o mise of salvation. Jesus ca n not save us. There is a diffe r ent is su e in play here. This is to say, our salvati o n is r ooted in s o mething el s e altogether.

I menti o ned that imbalance is another word f o r sin. To say that we are sinners is to say that w e are imbala n ced in (e t e r nal) life. F o r example, l et us say t h at we always put ourselves first. This is called selfis h ness. Selfishness is a s in or imbalance. Why? Because there is al s o another t o consider. T ake inhal a tion a nd e x halat i on. Can inhalation always put itself f irst o r does it equall y have to consider e xhala t ion? Th e re would also be an imbalance, or sin, occurring if we always put the other first. We ha v e our own existent needs as well. The balan c e occurs when both self and other a re held together, neither of them a l one bei n g fir