The Origin of Sin - Response

My response to my original paper the Origin of Sin

The original paper may be found here: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Apebble/1289508/

The Question: Who created sin?

The possibilities: God, Man, Satan, No one

Previous Answer: God

Wrong Answer: God, Satan, No one

To Answer this question:

We must ask what sin is. So, what is sin? Sin is an idea, thought action, and is synonymous with evil. All aspects of the definition must be entertained in order for it to exist fully.

An action must be done, and a thought/ idea must be thought of.

The Methods it would/could/was created:

If Man - By the use of free will

If God - By His supernatural power.

Sin is defined to specific actions/thoughts. When these actions are performed, it is sin. If no action occurs, no sin has been done. Therefore, action is required to create sin. AKA- Sin must be committed for it to fully exist.

There is no record of God sinning, but there is record of Man sinning.

Take away Man’s action of sin, and no aqction was committed. This lack of action makes sin impossible to exist, except theoretically.

Man’s action of sin made it fully exist/be created.

A Problem: Omniscience of God. If God knew that man would sin, why allow it?

To answer this, I propose the Oppositional Theory. The Oppositional Theory states: For every aspect of life, there is an exact opposite, such as: Truth - Lies, Love Hate, Happiness - Sadness.

For there to be love between God and Man, love must be created. In the creation of love, hate is an inevitable by-product. Love, to finish creation, must be acted upon. God’s loving us was the action necessary to fully create love, whereas hate, still un-acted upon, hasn’t been fully created and only exists theoretically.

A by-product of the Oppositional Theory is choice. The choice in which opposite to choose. This choice is also known as free will. God, by loving man, makes man effected by the opposites and Oppositional Theory, which grants them free will. They then use this free will to choose what opposite they can/will use.

So when God proposed truth, the theoretical existence of lies was made, but not the sin of lying itself. When Man acted on the opposites, the theoretical existence was no longer theoretical and became real.

When man acted on the opposites, they became/become existing and opposite of God. Since the opposite of God is sin, it then made those things sin, whereas they couldn’t have been sin if they hadn’t been acted on.

This makes Man and Free-will co-creators of sin, with the theoretical existence indirectly created by God by the creation of their opposites.

Man created sin. Option #2 is correct.

Author's Note

This is the final version and response to the prior paper.