If we are living creatures, what gives any theoretical creator the write to make us guilty the moment we're born? (if we can assume I don't accept the "because we should obey our creator" argument as being good enough, it might be helpful)
2006-06-20 00:34:57 · 23 answers · asked by mdfalco71 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Apologies - meant "right", not "write" as one answerer was kind enough to point out.
2006-06-20 00:49:57 · update #1
Great answers so far. Enjoying them. In particular, loved Christian_memmonite's: In quick reference, who am I? I'm a human being, and that, I feel, is good enough to ask this question. Peace :o)
2006-06-20 01:17:06 · update #2
If human life has any value (and we could argue about that until entropy puts out the last spark in the cosmos), then slavery takes away that value. Granting power over your very soul to some nonexistent being is the ultimate form of slavery.
2006-06-20 00:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First its "right" not "write"
Second the creator God did not make us guilty when we were born. Sin like birth defects are passed in the genes.
Third Christianity has an open door policy. Man manipulates using religion, politics, power and other things. Its man that the power freak not Christianity
2006-06-20 07:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by williamzo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athesists is the easy option of opting out. If you do not pray to the creator or give your live to living for Him how do you know He is not real. Because you want to rule your own life and have your own way. i know i used o be just like that. What i have come to realise is that the world has had it own way since sin came into being this is why the world is the way it is. A MESS!
2006-06-20 07:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by tapperlorraine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, He doesn't want us to feel 'guilty'.
You might call it guilt when you know it's wrong, but you just dont want to tell anyone what you did.
What our creator wants us to do is to let go of this wrong because he has something better - way better for us.
The Bible promises us with eternal life, a chance to get into heaven. (John 3:16)
Secondly, if you could call Him our creator, thats already a good-enough reason to obey him.
He not only made us, but he also gave us ALL the blessings we enjoy. He even gave his only son.
He does that to make us turn to him and love him.
He's Jesus.
2006-06-20 08:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by Migs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born in sin because our great...great...grandparents, Adam and Eve sinned. That means that their sin, even if just a little bit, is still in our blood and a part of who we are.
No one is born a sinner. How can anyone be a sinner if they have not done anything but be born? Being born can't be a sin because if God didn't want people to be born; and therefore, made anyone that was born a sinner, then that defeats his purpose. Unless his purpose was to make people bad so He could be the hero.
2006-06-20 07:57:42 · answer #5 · answered by wwj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The so-called Original Sin doctrine was a clever scam created by some of Jesus' disciples. But Jesus taught no such thing. From the Christian scripture...
Mark 2:17
Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
So, the Christians may continue to ignore what they don't like and make everyone sick anyway.
PS. That's according to the Christian scripture, the father-mother of the gnostic scripture doesn't even recognise sin, lest that sin be Ignorance.
2006-06-20 07:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Original Sin is a theory that we are born into a world filled with imperfections, grief, sorrow and that we can't help but be affected
by it.
Man made up the theory, not God.
God gets such a bad wrap in the metaphor chin these days for things stupid humans and egotistical humans make up!
God's Rep is in tact with me on this one, neighbor!
Lil
2006-06-20 07:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by EpicPoem Lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the way you view individual and group responsibility.
A temporal example: at the end of WW-II the German population as a whole bore the guilt of the holocaust, whether or not they as individuals had anything to do with it.
Original sin is the same thing. While we had nothing to do with the sin of Adam and Eve, we, as humans, collectively bear that guilt.
2006-06-20 07:42:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concept of "original sin" is just part of "the story," a story that tries explain our condition. When I say "it is a story," I am not saying the it is not true. It is true that we are all sinful. We are selfish, etc. My advice, if you want it, is not to get "hung up" on complicated theology concepts. If you stay on that road, you will end up in a garbage dump at the end of the road.
2006-06-20 07:46:02 · answer #9 · answered by Bluebeard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing (except in the weird fantasies of some religious leaders who created the idea in order to make all of us feel guilty and subsequently easier to control and manipulate).
2006-06-20 07:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by Sean F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋