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Thoughts on Sin and Death
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In a class project covering Humanity and Sin, I was dissatisfied with the final compromise: I do not think we agreed on what was at the heart of sin. So, what is sin? the textbook said good, if at times esoteric, things on the subject, but I found it dry reading as compared to the informative narrative of Genesis. One aspect of that story I want to consider as regarding the nature of sin is the element of truth present in the deceitful words of the serpent. Adam and Eve did not die, at least not as was expected, and even God ‘agrees’ with the serpent at the end of the chapter, proclaiming that man had become like God.
I, considering personal experience, strongly suspect that if men were to consider their death they’d be better people. I am not yet even speaking of the judgment to come. What is the final thing the spirits show Ebenezer but his death? Is he enticed with Heaven or threatened with Hell? No, for he had made money his greatest aim only to discover what gain such gains were to a corpse. What is it Socrates says of his own profession but that philosophy is a preparation for death? So, I proclaim that a wise man should say, “Memento mori,” for in a sense, without facing death we cannot know God.
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