What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call [man’s] Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was—that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love—he was not man.

Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.

They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man.

No, they say, they do not preach that man is evil, the evil is only that alien object: his body. No, they say, they do not wish to kill him, they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him, they say, against his pain—and they point at the torture rack to which they’ve tied him, the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions, the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.


The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive—a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. . . . Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God. . . . Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith . . . The purpose of man’s life . . . is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/religion.html

The difference is, a person who decides (or learns) to make his or her own rules about right and wrong have to think. They are expected to make mistakes. When they do make a mistake they might learn that what they did was "wrong" because they realized how it hurt someone else. Then they (hopefully) will change their ways. (Sin no more.)

Christians, on the other hand, are told what is right and what is wrong via rules, guidance and the ten commandments. IF they believe all of what they have been told, then they don't have to "think" or "decide" what is right and wrong for themselves, all they have to do is obey the laws. Simple right?

If they already know what the laws are, then why do they break them?

If they repent and believe they are forgiven, then why do they continue to break the same laws? Have they not repented and decided to change their ways? or do they think they can just continue to sin and be forgiven over and over?

If you know the law and break it, it is not a "mistake," it is INTENTIONAL.






[After the fall of man in the garden of Eden,,,YES,,man INTENTIONALLY like to sin because it has become his second nature....So it's the nature of man to sin,,hence,,the Bible says in the book of Jeremaih 17:9''The heart of man is deceitful above all things,,and desperately wicked...Who can know it? '']

What is this world of abnormalities that you speak of?
[world where abnormality is been accepted as the norm...And any nation that encourages it belongs to this world... ]

"but what will it cost me to have a space in your heart"...An amazing line Solace [Thank you miss Leigh! Miss you loads...]

Solace
So sad my brother
But you are a young man
With much to offer
And much love is still ahead for you my friend
Well said


[Good to hear your comment,big brother Kirk...yea i believe there is still much love ahead,,,but you know when you've seen the one that you love,,and unfortunately,,, it belongs to someone else,,it would seem love would never come your way again coz you thought that was the only one for you...]

I fear more for the loss of my friends and family
No one will miss me much...


[hehe..my gud friend,,,i'd definitly miss u]