Judaism ForumWHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL SIN? ANYONE? TRY THIS! :: Re: WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL SIN? ANYONE? TRY THIS!According to the Bible, the original sin was actually committed in heaven by an angel we know as Lucifer or Satan. The book of Ezekiel not only shows that Satan was initially created good (Ezekiel 28:15), but was one of God's grandest creations. Speaking of Satan, it reads: "You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty." (Ezekiel 28:12) It even states that Lucifer was, "anointed as guardian cherub [angel]," (Ezekiel 28:14) and shows him to be assigned a place at the heart of heaven. The time came when this angel stopped focussing on the majesty and glory of his creator and started looking at his own radiance. "Your heart became proud on account of your beauty and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor." (Ezekiel 28:17) This sin of pride grew to its inevitable result - rebellion! Satan said in his heart, "I will raise my throne above the stars of God . . I will make myself like the Most High." (Isaiah 14:13,14) The one who was created would lead a third of the angelic host into a great battle against his own Creator (Revelation 12:7-9). The rebellion failed and all the dark angels were cast out of heaven. The book of Genesis begins by describing the order in which God created all things, and then focuses on the culmination of all His creative activity - humanity. Adam and Eve would be humanity's organic representatives and are pictured as initially enjoying a special relationship with God. Man was the object of God's affection and God was the object of man's wonder. This initial state of innocence disintegrated when Adam and Eve transgressed the one commandment God had given them. This is not a story of an old ogre punishing humanity just because they messed up once. This is a tragic account of a gracious God who had entrusted man with freedom, only to be rejected once again. Adam and Eve had complete freedom in paradise apart from one action, eating the fruit from one tree out of an entire forest. God forbade Adam and Eve to eat this fruit but the real reason for man's failure was not just enjoying a little lunch. The origins of humanity's fall resulted in pursuing the serpent's promise "when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5). The root of sin's inception was a determination to be like God, which was the very sin that had corrupted Satan. Like a drug that causes genetic mutation in all of one's descendants, this pride poisoned all of Adam and Eve's children. We call this inherited flaw sin, and every person that has descended from Adam and Eve has been born with this defect. We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. "The lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understands, any who seek God. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." (Psalm 14:2,3) The Bible's portrait of what sin is and what sin has done to mankind is far more disastrous than many would like to think. Adam and Eve became slaves to their own egos in this blatant act of self-service. Falling into the error of the Ptolemaic system, man placed himself in the center of his universe with everything else, including God, rotating around him. Augustine wrote, "sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained". Man's slavery to his own ego resulted in death, as turning away from his life-giver meant relinquishing life. "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned." (Romans 5:12) Sin, as it does today, took man further than he wanted to go, and cost more than he wanted to spend. "In a distorted sense, the promise of the serpent was fulfilled in that we humans now had the knowledge of good and evil. The deception lay in that humans could not feel remorse over the perversion of evil from the height of a holy estate. We would only be able to idealize good from the pit of a darkened condition." |
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