|
The God Factor - Part 2
** Sin is a transgression; against the Divine Law of the Principles of Morality! Which makes one an enmity against All Mighty God; which is a condition of eternal saparation or isolation! **
Date: 9/21/2013 8:59:17 PM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 10476 times Father Andrew wrote:
Sin is that condition in which a person attempts to make themself the centre of their life, or either ignores God; pushing Him on to the circumference.
Our fallen human nature is the self-centered human nature!
As seen in the context of the Genesis story of the creation of humanity, where humans choose to centre themselves upon the earthly and creaturely, ignoring the fact that they were created in the image and likeness of God!
The Divine Life, latent in the depths of their being, is ignored altogether or pushed out on the circumference of life!
The outcome is the serious condition called Sin!
This leads to the commission of sin(s), and to deadening of real life.
Father Andrew points out:
"The human nature Christ brought to Earth is God-centered."
Looking at the life of Christ as revealed in the Holy Gospels: we should notice Jesus centered His life upon God; He brought about an integration of the earthly and creaturely. The outcome was wholeness and eternal salavation.
We need to center our lives upon God in like manner, integrating the earthly and creaturely!
**
God loves: humans seek self pleasure with mostly reckless abandonment of moral law or purpose!
The God factor is there as a guide line or guard rail against our self destruction through sin!
" ... The principle of sin which is the human's selfcentered desire to secure their independence against All Mighty God! "
G.W.H. Lampe, in A.R. Vidler, - Soundings
" The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - a gentle slope, soft underfoot, with-out sudden turns, or mile markers or signposts. " C.S.Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
" Sin has always been an ugly word, but has been made into a new sense over the past fifty years... It has ben made not only ugly, but passe or outdated. People are no longer sinful, they are now immature, or underprivileged, or frightened, or more particularly sick! "
Phillis McGinley, - The Province of the Heart,"
**
" Eden is on no map, Adam's fall on no historicalcalander. The original Fall does not is not contained in some database on the aboriginal calamity in the historical human past, but to a dimension of human experience which is always present - because namely; we were created for fellowship with God repudiate it continually; as the whole of mankind does so along with us! " J.S. Whale, Christian Doctrine
*** Some of these references can help guide your moral compass as to The God Factor in your life!
" Seek ye first The Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all things (earthly needs) shall be aded unto you! "
Matthew 6:33
More in the next part...
Add This Entry To Your CureZone Favorites! Print this page
Email this page
 Alert Webmaster
|
