It's been a while since my last entry, so you may be wondering what has been on my mind. Well let me tell ya, not much, actually a ton of things have been running through my wee little brain. A few week ago I posted a status update on Twitter/Facebook (modern technology for anyone who just thought that I was speaking in another language). The post went as follows: "Sin has been viewed as something that we have done, rather we should think of it in terms of who we are not: truly human." I feel that I need to expound upon this view a little more due to some confusion on what I am saying.
It dawned on me that in modern Christianity we view sin as specific actions (ie hate, lust, murder, etc.) which those are a part of it, but I do not believe that they fully define the term. For me, sin is more of being someone that we were not intended to be, rebelling by choice. When the Creator formed humanity in his image, there was no sin/sinners, they were human in it's purest form. When we chose to not follow our intended purpose, that is where we sinned and thus became sinners.
Jump ahead a few thousand (or million if that is your view) to present day. We are all still sinning (yes even Christians) because we are not yet fully human and we will not be until the final judgment. This is not to say that even though we have to wait to become fully human that we should not care about what is happening today (this topic has been covered in previous blogs, so I will not pursue it further unless asked to). We can however move toward being fully human if we come to truly understand what it will mean to be fully human.
I look forward to hearing people's thoughts on this, especially as I have almost left this open ended.
May we live today as collective sinners working to rid collective sin.
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