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Originally Posted by Astreja  If I'm following you correctly... Expulsion from the Garden as a metaphor for overriding instinctual behaviours? Not a bad analogy, that.
Once we become self-aware and see the possibility of choosing one action over another, "Eden" simply ceases to exist for us... In much the same way, we can't revert to our pre-aware infancy but must seek personal happiness in consciousness, choice and action. |
Exactly.
For the first time on Earth a life form can chose. With a series of better and better compromises we gain progress; not perfection.
Drop the notion of “I was created with sin in me”. This is wrong.
There was no “fall of man”; this is an illusion of the ego. Or whatever you believe in.
God made you exactly as you are and is happy with his creation.
Now some of my choices piss him off … that is true.
