Some say that Pride is the source of all sin. Here is how I look at that. Pride might be called a “gateway emotion”. It may or may not lead to “vanity”. It’s kind of like when Thom Hartman was talking about Calvinists yesterday. He equated Calvinism with the notion of extolling the Rich and debasing the Poor. But this is not a part of Calvinism per se. What Calvinism does is set up a “moral matrix” if you will, where such condescending beliefs about the Rich and the Poor are possible.
The whole notion of sin is “missing the mark” or put another simpler way, “being wrong about something”. What a prudent person does when faced with “being wrong” is to correct the situation once it’s exposed. Sin is not the same thing as transgression. Transgression is the volitional stepping over of moral lines. But I’ll tell you this- - Christianity os loaded with sin, and some can say it is founded at its very foundation on Sin incarnate. Some people using the ontological argument will say that if man is capable of Imagining something, then that “something” must have some basis in reality. This is a variation of the idea that God can’t make a rock so big that he’s unable to lift it. But why stop there, you Athiests. Don’t be a piker. Ask God the big question. “Is it possible to destroy himself so that in reality he never existed?” If he can’t so the argument goes, then there is “Something that God can’t do- - nyah- - nyah- - “. In the four dimensional construct we have used for our Universe, such an act of God is inherently Impossible. But now back to Christianity. It says in Daniel chapter nine somewhere that among the things that the Messiah will do is “to make an end to sin”. Did Jesus do this? Did Jesus make an end to all sinning in the world?” No. So does Jesus fail scripture at this point? The answer is yes. It proved to be a “vain imagining”. Talk of life after death is probably a “vain imagining”. As little as I know about hyperbolic trigonometry I even know less about life after death. None of us have any information available to us. The thing Christianity has to be aware of is what does it do NOW when confronted with this self evident Truth that “scripture has failed”. Does it make up reasons and rationalizations so as to deny the basic reality before it? If so you have now moved into the volitional transgression of self-deception. And lying to yourself and more importantly to others- - is a transgression. It’s a transgression because the assumption of a student is that he’s there to learn and that a teacher will tell him the truth. So the teacher has violated a trust and defrauded the student.
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How are you doing this morning? Did everybody get a good night’s sleep? Good. Now we’re headed for deep water. The origin of all sin can be traced back to two words- - Vain Imaginings. You find this phrase of “vain imaginings” a lot in the Bible but what does it mean? Last night while doing that blog, notably in the last paragraph, I sinned. I made a few “mental errors” though reading the text it would be hard for someone to isolate them. You would have to be psychic to know what I was thinking. We were talking about hyperbolic functions. I’ve read the Wickipedia article and I know I was way over my head. I still don’t understand “Taylor Searies” or any of that. For the benefit of those of you who want to know, the three lines associated with hyperbolic trigonometry consist of an S line that travels horizontally below the zero grid and when it hits zero zero on the Y X axis it blips above zero and then keeps traveling to the right in an S formation. One of the sine lines does a vertical “S” in like manner. The other line starts off by hugging the other Sine line in positive territory but then does a “U” when it gets near zero and goes back up in the upper left quadrant. One might describe a portion of the line formation as a “horn of plenty” with an opening bell at the bottom that turns horizontal at the end.
But I made a mental error that Martin of the Simpson’s might have made. Actually a ten year old of a 135 IQ isn’t all that bright. It only makes him as intelligent as the average eighth grader, and I’m known a lot of really dumb eighth graders. The whole IQ thing supposedly is doing your “mental age” and there is that test in my baby book I took when I was three where you seemed to be able to directly divide mental age verses chronological age and come up with a percentile figure. It’s just too bad people don’t keep mentally developing at the same rate all their lives. But what is “vain imaginings”? If I were a poker player playing with some Las Vegas high rollers I’d be in a position last night where I bluffed, and now my job is to insure that nobody finds out about it and just maybe I can get away with something. Which one of us- - a homosexual couple engaged in an impassioned act of sodomy in bed- - or “Muah” last night? Who was sinning the more. The correct answer is “Muah”. The idea of sin or “vain imaginings” doesn’t really carry any moral connotations. The thing with sin is not having it, but what do you do when you are guilty of “Vain imaginings”. Some say that Ted Bundy was guilty of “vain imaginings” but in reality most of the time he wasn’t because he made all his “imaginings” come true. So ponder that one a little.
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