This is a continuation of Part 1. Click here to view: “Vaccine Deaths in New Zealand“.
To “sin” in ancient Greek meant “to miss the mark.” As an archery term that’s fairly easy to understand. But what does it mean to “sin” as a human? What mark is there that we might miss? In my heart, it means to miss being your unique self. To miss being fully alive during your one brief appearance in this form. To fail to become your true self.
Thus, the process of “not sinning” means being true to yourself. It comes not from becoming something new, but from losing the barriers you might have that prevent your full self from expressing. To “be a sinner” then means to be missing your mark. It means you are imperfect and that there are things in you that can be discovered and shed. They are things you already have that need to be brought to light, examined, and consciously set aside as you mature into who you are truly meant to be. That’s my process around it, at least.
This begins to define a crucial difference between those who would want to subsume themselves into an authoritarian matrix – effectively removing control of their thoughts and actions to an external body or source – and those who hold that they (and they alone) are responsible for their actions and deeds. Perhaps this is a difference between “conservatives” and “progressives”?