Rygan_Deathblade
Evil
All men are born bathed in sin. It clings to their being, and perhaps their very soul. Those who sin, however, are denied entrance at God's gates and cease to exist, their souls powdered into a fine nothing and spread across the void. How can this be, then? How can a man be born into sin yet also be torn from Heaven and the grace of God for having sinned?
The priests of the past century have made attempts to explain this delving into the world from the eyes of The King of Kings, creating their own laws and deeming them fashioned by the Lord. Any individual who perfectly and dutifully follows these laws will find salvation. I, though no priest, find the prospect of such laughable. Perhaps even displaying an unapologetic arrogance. In place of man-made law, I propose else-wise: absolution derives from truth of character and good intention within the heart and soul. A man cannot be damned to Darkness so long as he seeks the Light.
In truth - for God recognises only the truth - sin is inescapable. It taints the air all men breathe and soaks deep into the wells from which all men drink. To attempt to escape sin is to attempt to snuff out the flame of life from its wick. If one cannot escape sin, then, rationally the next step would be to fight sin. How can this be done? How does one destroy that that is impossible to destroy? The answer lies not in the murder of those who sin knowingly, but in finding the truth of their beliefs and pitying them for the ultimate fate of their persons. To clear sin from this Earth is not to clear the sin from one's own soul - an evil man can commit acts of the greatest good. He remains an evil man. We return to our conundrum, then, in that all are born with sin yet all sinners are damned.
The pessimist would say that truly, in the eyes of Heaven, we are a collection of damned souls shuffling through mortality for but a brief spark of time. I am no such man. Salvation comes from the betterment of one's self and the will to stumble through the Dark to the Light. Perhaps you are such a man - the battle against sin is a personal one stemming from the heart of the individual.
In the end, a man's sin ends only when his own life does as well, in all men.
The priests of the past century have made attempts to explain this delving into the world from the eyes of The King of Kings, creating their own laws and deeming them fashioned by the Lord. Any individual who perfectly and dutifully follows these laws will find salvation. I, though no priest, find the prospect of such laughable. Perhaps even displaying an unapologetic arrogance. In place of man-made law, I propose else-wise: absolution derives from truth of character and good intention within the heart and soul. A man cannot be damned to Darkness so long as he seeks the Light.
In truth - for God recognises only the truth - sin is inescapable. It taints the air all men breathe and soaks deep into the wells from which all men drink. To attempt to escape sin is to attempt to snuff out the flame of life from its wick. If one cannot escape sin, then, rationally the next step would be to fight sin. How can this be done? How does one destroy that that is impossible to destroy? The answer lies not in the murder of those who sin knowingly, but in finding the truth of their beliefs and pitying them for the ultimate fate of their persons. To clear sin from this Earth is not to clear the sin from one's own soul - an evil man can commit acts of the greatest good. He remains an evil man. We return to our conundrum, then, in that all are born with sin yet all sinners are damned.
The pessimist would say that truly, in the eyes of Heaven, we are a collection of damned souls shuffling through mortality for but a brief spark of time. I am no such man. Salvation comes from the betterment of one's self and the will to stumble through the Dark to the Light. Perhaps you are such a man - the battle against sin is a personal one stemming from the heart of the individual.
In the end, a man's sin ends only when his own life does as well, in all men.
