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It is enough for me to accept that God considers that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Yet, like you, I want to understand the history of it in a simpler way.
I see sin as a cancer cell. Science says that cancer cells are present within in our bodies in a benign form but when activated a body starts to be destroyed. In the same way by choosing our will over God’s will it starts destroying the soul and body. We are beings of free will. We are given choices and we either follow God’s will or our own will. Sin is choosing our will over God’s. The cancer is formed and no longer benign.
Given that how did we end up being sinners here? It is a matter of physical location, where we physically are. First, heaven was a perfect place for the angels. Then sin was found in Lucifer, soon to become Satan, the adversary. He exalted his will over God’s and the cancer formed and he had to be removed to restore the perfect place. Likewise, Adam and Eve preferred their will over God’s and the cancer formed and they had to be removed to restore the perfect place. They lost access to the Garden, so we lost our Garden inheritance like our nearer ancestors lost money in the 1928 crash.
We lost access to the Garden because our first ancestors lost access to the Garden because they violated the terms of the agreement and there must be a reckoning. That is why we hold the rule of law in such high regard, injustice must be reckoned with, it is part of the imprinted image of God. Now we must walk in a world that is not perfect, that is what we inherited, a place that also has a formed cancer and also cries for deliverance. We are promised a new heaven and earth that is perfect in due time determined by God.
Part of the reckoning is that God declared that the shedding of blood, an operation so to speak, is necessary to cleanse the cancer of opposing God’s will. The other part of the reckoning is that we must walk through this cancer of a world. We should learn obedience from the process to value what was lost. At birth our free will is not yet tested. As we grow it is tested and we pass and fail by greater and lesser degrees.
Free will beings are able to give God the greatest glory. Since God is the only perfect free will being and our creator, we reflect His perfect image when we prefer His will instead of our own. Original sin is the sin of the original human beings made in His image. They were locked out of perfection and so are we until we pass from this life into the next having learned what it is like in an imperfect, cancerous world, so we can value the next and not choose our wills over God’s.
God has not orphaned us though. He gives us help in the time of need if we ask. He gave us the perfect relief for the reckoning, He gave us Jesus. Walking in this cancerous world as a human being and divine but using only His human free will to perfectly obey, Jesus became the perfect human blood atonement.
If we believe, we can use this perfect human atonement to regain our inheritance lost by the imperfect choices of our human ancestors. Until the time of the end of the reckoning determined by God, He left us His Word to follow containing the promises and the grace to endure. Jesus was the first, the Word and grace made flesh. He passed on the Word, the Grace, and the Authority to His disciples and they formed the first church to pass on that Word, Grace, and Authority to future generations.
That church exists today as the Catholic Church. There are others who desire to obey God but follow a limited version of the Word and Grace because some of their ancestors stepped outside of the chain of authority initiated by Jesus. Even still, we call them brothers if they are baptized into the atonement in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
That is how I explain original sin. The cancer of self-will over God’s will explains this world and the atonement explains the next where we will be given a new name, a new body, and a new place to live as promised in His Word if only we seek to know and obey Him by His Grace which is new every morning.
I see sin as a cancer cell. Science says that cancer cells are present within in our bodies in a benign form but when activated a body starts to be destroyed. In the same way by choosing our will over God’s will it starts destroying the soul and body. We are beings of free will. We are given choices and we either follow God’s will or our own will. Sin is choosing our will over God’s. The cancer is formed and no longer benign.
Given that how did we end up being sinners here? It is a matter of physical location, where we physically are. First, heaven was a perfect place for the angels. Then sin was found in Lucifer, soon to become Satan, the adversary. He exalted his will over God’s and the cancer formed and he had to be removed to restore the perfect place. Likewise, Adam and Eve preferred their will over God’s and the cancer formed and they had to be removed to restore the perfect place. They lost access to the Garden, so we lost our Garden inheritance like our nearer ancestors lost money in the 1928 crash.
We lost access to the Garden because our first ancestors lost access to the Garden because they violated the terms of the agreement and there must be a reckoning. That is why we hold the rule of law in such high regard, injustice must be reckoned with, it is part of the imprinted image of God. Now we must walk in a world that is not perfect, that is what we inherited, a place that also has a formed cancer and also cries for deliverance. We are promised a new heaven and earth that is perfect in due time determined by God.
Part of the reckoning is that God declared that the shedding of blood, an operation so to speak, is necessary to cleanse the cancer of opposing God’s will. The other part of the reckoning is that we must walk through this cancer of a world. We should learn obedience from the process to value what was lost. At birth our free will is not yet tested. As we grow it is tested and we pass and fail by greater and lesser degrees.
Free will beings are able to give God the greatest glory. Since God is the only perfect free will being and our creator, we reflect His perfect image when we prefer His will instead of our own. Original sin is the sin of the original human beings made in His image. They were locked out of perfection and so are we until we pass from this life into the next having learned what it is like in an imperfect, cancerous world, so we can value the next and not choose our wills over God’s.
God has not orphaned us though. He gives us help in the time of need if we ask. He gave us the perfect relief for the reckoning, He gave us Jesus. Walking in this cancerous world as a human being and divine but using only His human free will to perfectly obey, Jesus became the perfect human blood atonement.
If we believe, we can use this perfect human atonement to regain our inheritance lost by the imperfect choices of our human ancestors. Until the time of the end of the reckoning determined by God, He left us His Word to follow containing the promises and the grace to endure. Jesus was the first, the Word and grace made flesh. He passed on the Word, the Grace, and the Authority to His disciples and they formed the first church to pass on that Word, Grace, and Authority to future generations.
That church exists today as the Catholic Church. There are others who desire to obey God but follow a limited version of the Word and Grace because some of their ancestors stepped outside of the chain of authority initiated by Jesus. Even still, we call them brothers if they are baptized into the atonement in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
That is how I explain original sin. The cancer of self-will over God’s will explains this world and the atonement explains the next where we will be given a new name, a new body, and a new place to live as promised in His Word if only we seek to know and obey Him by His Grace which is new every morning.
