A Natural distaste for the Christian God by nature?

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For those who believe the Bible, it is a common convention within the New Testament (particularly within the writings of Paul) that man, by nature, is resistant to the will and Law of God.

This is taken within Calvinism, Protestantism, and others to imply that there exists a “total depravity” to man—such that the Bible implies that humans are “naturally evil”.

The concept of total depravity might be a case of jumping the gun.

Aside from an inscrutable (conceivable) perception of the Judeo-Christian God concerning “evil” and what constitutes “evil”—and aside from the existence of the sociopath—one can argue that most human beings might qualify for a “limited” or “intermittent” depravity.

Even if one does not adhere to Christianity or to the Bible, there is the challenge that many statements of the Bible believed to be moral commands from God (or admonishments for moral behavior by Paul and others) is met with a resistance and aversion within the reader when one encounters the relevant words.

For instance, commandments against emotional and physical violence are easy to obey, and are “no brainers”. However, one might feel a sense of strong aversion when one encounters the verse: “abstain from sexual immorality”.

Thus the problem of sin itself. Man “sins” for the most part (if one is non-sociopathic, as the sociopaths seems to “sin” in order to openly defy God or for fun) due to a seemingly uncontrollable desire and lust.

It is this powerful desire that draws man into conflict with God (For those who believe in the relevant concepts).

The only “cure” is conceived to be psychological and moral evolution of the human mind to a state where the environment and the system of the human mind no longer necessitates that which the Bible calls “sin”.

In Superchristianity, this is achieved through a psychological evolution into a re-enactment of the mind of Jesus Christ.

Nuff said.

Jay M. Brewer
superchristianity.com
blog.myspace.com/superchristianity

(The websites present a working hypothesis concerning what was going on within the mind of Jesus Christ while dying upon the cross—and a hypothesis that the Second Dream of Jesus Christ—while his body rested within the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea—is the key to immortality)

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This belongs in the religion forum.

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I agree. As I understood things when I went to church, it was imperative to “bridle your passions” and “reject the natural man.” The church knew it was impossible to completely erase the “natural man” and “passions”, so thats why the moral system was designed to only “suppress” these desires.

I can see why people think of religion as a “tool to control people”, but really, control is just the basis of Abrahamic religion’s morality.

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Agreed.

Most Christians (who let down their hair for a little while and decide to be honest) will admit that it is in the area of desire and passion that there exists a schism between the Law of God and human beings.

This is the sticking point: a person can EASILY obey God’s law if that law prohibits behaviors to which the individual naturally is not inclined to do

(For example, the non-sociopath is not inclined to murder or commit unjustified violence upon others…thus the commandment “thou shalt not kill” is a piece of cake to obey)

The problem, again, comes when there is a commandment or admonishment against what one is “dying to do” on a continuous basis (the mightiest of all desires that go against some of the commandments of God, of course, is SEX—which to the Christian is a bigger “enemy” than Satan himself)

Here, the commandments of God oppose that which the individual finds most compelling and pleasurable. Thus one is apt to “sin” due to this one sticking point.

The cure, as stated before, is a psychomoral evolution and a change in the very state or nature of the universe in which such desires no longer exist.

Perhaps the cure for sin is found in another world…not in this one.

Just an opinion,

Jay M. Brewer
superchristianity.com
blog.myspace.com/superchristianity