This question popped out of the mist this morning as I was half awake: What if the true meaning of original sin is our acceptance of freewill as opposed to steadfast reliance on God's will?
As I walked Ruckus, I pondered that. It seems almost like a Catch-22. If we never accepted freewill but maintained steadfast reliance on God's will, it'd surely cut our journey...geez, not in two, but simply cut it out.
There'd be no journey out into the material world from which we return to God. No errors in judgment. No foes to fight. No overweight drunken addicts on opioids. No exhilarating...anything. I mean, unless we count all the things we wouldn't have to deal with as exhilarating, that's as good as we'd get.
There'd just be God being God.
No wonder he created humans...all that goodness seems a tish boring to me. Which is maybe freewill thinking? Possibly, self-will thinking? It surely isn't God which answers that.
Right, wrong or just another flight of fantasy, it deepens my gratitude that we are given freewill. Doing wrong and needing to right it and finding we must needs go to God to truly right it is the pearl beyond price. That's how and when we experience the joy of forgiving and being forgiven...with, really and truly, forgiving being the best.
Forgiving it is not of self. Forgiving is us, unselfed, and we know Self as alive and active within.
Thank you.
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