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Re: Original Sin
amen to all that, phnxman included. Fast-forward to the 2nd Council of Nicea--the 1st having been dissolved in uproar--when the strong men in the pre-RCC forced the doctrine of Original Sin upon the church, and outlawed owning a Bible shortly thereafter. This sundered the Christian church, the remnant going East and South, and what are now Western Christians, now bereft of Scripture, instigating the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the finger-pointing--and i'm pretty sure the codependence--that endures to this day in our culture, and is practically impossible to find anywhere else; and is also practically impossible to discuss with a death-centered Western Christian, of which i am one.
I'm slowly developing the theory--apparently, as i didn't ask for any of this, it just happened--that Scripture was physically unavailable for those 1000 years or so, and, the doctrine having done its work, Scripture is now--more or less--spiritually unavailable to us, at least without a big change of mind. We say that we are free from sin, but sin, remitting sin, death, who died, whose fault is it, and what "their" shortcomings are--whoever "they" may be, seems to be our central focus.
Witness threads extant here, "versus" threads, or the news, or the fantasy land we raise our kids in, or how we treat our pets--these last two would be compensating methods--add "tipping" to that...it's early, but i could go on for days.
Now of course i speak generally here, several reject or overcome this, a few escape. I haven't yet, i guess
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