Are You Sinning?

Are You Sinning?

          It is a safe bet that you are a sinner. But not in the way that you think that you are or from the sins that you confess to. The church would have you believe that you are born in sin and have convinced Christians that humanity must suffer from the “fall of man.” Which is what the religious schoolers have taken from the Eden story. Because God evicted Adam and Eve; from Eden; forced them into a world of pain, trouble, disappointment, sin, sickness, punishment and death; we believe that this is the way it must be. I have a different view to present. Consider it. If you don’t agree, no harm done.

          Let’s start at the beginning. In the Bible; chapter one is the real spiritual creation story. God is Spirit. Spirit fills all time and all space; therefore everything He created was created in and of Spirit. God created what? Everything that was created. How? God formed a picture in His Mind of what He wanted and the thought flowed into the form. Why? God, being our Father-Mother-God, wanted the best for His sons and daughters. Take note that nothing was created that could harm His children in any way. Once everything that they would need was created; our Father created children in His image and likeness: Spiritually perfect. God made a survey of all He had created, found it all very good, and then He rested.

          Now, if, you can answer two questions, in an intelligent, logical, sensible way, I will quit now and admit that I am wrong. I am not questioning the Bible, only the interpretation people place on it.

1} When our Father had finished creating everything Spiritually, perfect and good: why would He recreate in such a sloppy and careless manner? From spirit, the highest; to Adam, created with dust; the lowest to- Eve from a rib taken from Adam?

2} If Adam and Eve were the first and only people on earth-how could Cain find a wife?

          I have many more questions, but I think you get my point. The Eden story is not history. It is an allegory: a story with hidden or symbolic meaning.

Sin #1)        You deeply believe, because Eve was tempted by Satan, and ate the forbidden fruit, that there is a power opposed to God. You believe in dual powers. God against Satan. You believe that Satan is the power that causes sin, sickness and death on earth and that someday there will be a great battle between good and evil. You believe that man is plagued by an evil power that rivals omnipotent God. How can Satan oppose God? Satan was never created. Satan is any form has no more power that the shadow on the wall. God is the One; the Only Creator and the only Power and shares His power with no one or no thing.

Believing in any power other than God is sin.

To believe in dual power is sin

Sin 2)          God wants us to love Him as He loves us. Not a love that is forced, fearful, resentful, robotic, mechanical, and automatic or pretended, this is not love. Our Father gave us “Free Will” so that we can experience whatever we choose. When we have had enough of this so-called evil that we believe in, we finally understand how completely unnecessary suffering is. God’s Reality is all good. God does not punish, God does not forgive sin, because Satan and sin were never created.

Not loving God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength is sin.

          When we don’t love God completely we only hurt ourselves. God knows that there will come a time when we will and He will welcome us with open arms, without a word of cynicism, reproach or complaint because it took so long.

          Remember the “House of Mirrors” at carnivals? In one you were tall and skinny, another short and fat, in the next you might view yourself deformed, but you were not concerned. You knew that “You” had not changed. We view ourselves in a ‘funny mirror’ here on earth. We are not miserable sinners that the race consciousness has imposed on us.

          God holds us in His Mind as the perfect spiritual children He created and nothing can change that.

          727 words                  Loretta Ellen Edwards