Gnostic Bishop
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Eden. Original Sin or Original Virtue?
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http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/20/comparative-theodicy/
“Judaism preaches the Rise of man: and instead of Original Sin,it stresses Original Virtue, the beneficent hereditary influence of righteousancestors upon their descendants’.”
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http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/original_sin.html
From John Galt's speech, in Atlas Shrugged.
“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call hisOriginal Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state theyconsider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree ofknowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledgeof good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread byhis labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experiencedesire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which theydamn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of hisexistence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed toexplain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but theessence of his nature as man. Whatever he was—that robot in the Garden of Eden,who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love—he wasnot man.
Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gainedthe virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin.His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that helives.”
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Fatherwhich is in heaven is perfect.
Gen 3;22 And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is becomeas one of us, to know good and evil;
Do you see Eden as our Original Sin or as our OriginalVirtue?
Regards
DL
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http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/20/comparative-theodicy/
“Judaism preaches the Rise of man: and instead of Original Sin,it stresses Original Virtue, the beneficent hereditary influence of righteousancestors upon their descendants’.”
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http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/original_sin.html
From John Galt's speech, in Atlas Shrugged.
“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call hisOriginal Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state theyconsider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree ofknowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledgeof good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread byhis labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experiencedesire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which theydamn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of hisexistence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed toexplain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but theessence of his nature as man. Whatever he was—that robot in the Garden of Eden,who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love—he wasnot man.
Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gainedthe virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin.His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that helives.”
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Fatherwhich is in heaven is perfect.
Gen 3;22 And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is becomeas one of us, to know good and evil;
Do you see Eden as our Original Sin or as our OriginalVirtue?
Regards
DL
