Posted by father john george
on November 4, 2009, 9:04 am
The way I see it, for what it's worth, is that we didn't inherit an original "Adam and Eve" sin but we did inherit our evolutionary beginnings of unenlightened animal natures based on mere instinct and survival (of the fittest[ANOTHER UTTERLY IGNORANT OF LATEST STRATIFICATION CUM SEDIMENTOLOGY FINDINGS DEBUNKING EVOLUTION RUBISH] (which leaves me out)) - then as humanity developed and evolved we gave this the metaphorical description of original sin.[TRENT OCCURED BEFORE SILLY DARWIN DUR] This makes much more sense[GOTTA BE JOKING] to me given the meanings of the names Adam and Eve as representative humans.
So what does Jesus 'save' us from? He saves us from (as long as we choose to follow his example and call on his companionship (companion - com/panis - meaning literally 'eating bread together')), he saves us from the uselessness of being mere animals[SO JESUS IS DARWIN INCARNATE ???] and living as such, sort of what Keirkegaard described as the aesthetic/material/experiential/physical phase. I use the word 'useless' as in 'wasted' in that being fully human to me means transforming our mere animal natures[STEVE SOUNDS LIKE A MANICHAEN JANSENIST TO ME into that which encompasses all the divine aspects and potential of human life as expressed in human culture but especially as expressed in love as God is Love.
I doubt that, without Jesus, the world as we know it, at least in the West, would have evolved into the culture we have which, for all its crap, is still one based on love[TELL THAT TO HAMMAS PALESTINIANS], justice and equality, something we tend to forget. However, it seems to me that many today are hell bent in ignoring this these days and would prefer to live according the animal/aesthetic nature that ever resides within us (call it original sin if you wish-I DONT WISH FANKS) - a world red in tooth and claw, both physically and psychologically speaking, and where survival of the fittest and all its resulting cyclical effects on the recipients of such violence becomes the norm,[HEY YOU SAID ABOVE THE WORLD IS BASED ON LOVE] rather than the 'heavenly'/'Eden-like'[NOW HE BELIEVES IN EDEN?????]/'kingdom of Love' view expressed in the beatitudes/Gospels.
ORIGINAL SIN IS BAD MONKEY THAT'S ALL -NOBIG DEAL
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