The Problem With Obedience
“If you love me, keep my commands…”
-John 14:15
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“Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in Heaven.”
-Matthew 7:21
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“…but each man is tempted when he is dragged away by his evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death."
-James 1: 13-15
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“Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning…
…Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who are the children of the devil; Anyone who continues to sin is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”
-1 John 3: 7-10
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I. Two Types of Beings In Regard To Sin and the Ability To Sin
A. Sin-Impervious/Sin-Incapable Beings
Sin-Impervious/Sin-Incapable beings are beings that due to the nature of how their minds happen or are created to exist, are not capable of entertaining, even for a Planck-second even the slightest minutiae of mental sin. When confronted by sin by external beings, sin-impervious/incapable beings experience an form of inattentional blindness wherein Existence strikes a “mute button” as well as a phantasmic distraction to ensure a sin-impervious being does not see, hear, think, nor feel that which the sinful being expresses, attempts to impose, or solicits (if, for example, a sinful being uses profanity, the sin-impervious/sin-incapable being cannot hear the profanity, nor see a sinful stimulus to which the sinful being points).
Examples of beings that are Sin-Impervious/Incapable are God, Jesus Christ, two-thirds of the angels that did not rebel, and post-resurrected humans in Heaven.
When it comes to sin-capable/sin-actual beings that do not wish to be sin-capable/actual, there is the optimism that God has the power to cause beings that sin to become Sin-impervious/incapable. Given the evidence provided by empirical experience of one’s existence, this transformation is intermittent prior to death but permanent and irreversible after death.
The 800-pound elephant of the question remains, however, of why and how sin and sinful beings exist in the first place, and why God did not or (controversially) could not create every being as Sin-Impervious/Sin-Incapable, such that from the very beginning of time, sin did not nor could exist. Free will is a poor and arguably irrelevant argument, as God did create Sin-Impervious/Sin-Incapable beings that did not have the choice but to be sin-impervious/incapable. If God had the power to not allow sin to exist anywhere prior to the existence of any being other than Himself (in the Three Incarnations), there would be neither need for death nor the harrowing gauntlet of sin, justification, forgiveness, and danger of Hell.
There is, one may argue, no real moral principle behind creating—
(essentially forcing a person to exist by reason of “going ahead” and creating the person against the person’s [nonexistent at the time of creation] will; upon rational reflection, given persons did not exist before they were created in order to have a say in the matter, everyone created by God was created without their will, i.e. without having a say or choice in the matter) from a standpoint when, a second ago one did not exist)
-–a person having a certain mental nature or property in terms of God creating non-choosing sin-Incapable beings “from scratch”. That is, it is neither “evil” nor “wrong” for God to create beings that cannot mentally nor bodily sin from the start. Given the existence of persons “born” (i.e. created by God) sin-incapable/impervious, and given God is sinless, God did not sin nor commit evil creating beings that are sinless through no fault of their own and having no choice nor say in the matter.
B. Sin-Capable/Sin-Actual Beings
For whatever reason, sin exists. Sin can only exist in conscious beings or in beings having conscious experience, as sin is a conscious experience and therefore composed of consciousness. Sin is primarily or fundamentally mental in nature, i.e manifesting in the form of thoughts and emotions that may exist in isolation independent of sensory/active environment, or exist as a response to or proactive intention toward an external person, environment, and event.
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“Anyone who sins also transgresses the Law, for sin is the transgression of the Law.”
-1 John 3:4
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Sin is the transgression of Moses’ Law as:
“For apart from Law, sin is dead.”
-Romans 7:8
A sin-capable/sin-actual being, then, is any being that is capable of violating Moses’ Law and actually violates that Law. There are three ways in which a person sins, i.e. violates Moses’ Law:
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Physically (bodily behavior)
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Sensorially (sensory behavior, usually and predominantly visual behavior)
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Mentally (through sinful thought in the form of or a combination of visual and verbal thought and sinful emotion)
Sin-capable/sin-actual beings by definition, then, are beings that by the very manner by which their minds exist can and will mentally violate the Law of Moses. Paul speaks of a “law of sin” that exists in his “members”, akin, one takes it, to the law of gravity, in which any person that can sin will sin at some point between birth and death. If this were not true, God’s complaint that: “There is no one who does good, not even one.” (Romans 3:10) a falsehood.
And it is impossible for God to lie (Hebrews 6:18), thus everyone sins, even if one only sins mentally.
So we have this law at work:
1. Sin-incapable/sin-impervious beings have minds that, by the “just so” manner in which the subjective experience that comprises their minds happens to exist, the subjective experience that composes their minds cannot permutate itself into the form of sin.
2. Sin-capable/sin-actual beings, by contrast, possess minds that, by the “just so” manner in which the subjective experience that comprises their minds happens to exist, the subjective experience that composes their minds must and will permutate into or eventually assume the form of sin.
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II. How Does Sin Exist In The First Place?
In order to understand or reasonably surmise where sin “came from” or how it existed in the first place, it is necessary to deny the premise that God created EVERYTHING. The term EVERYTHING is used here to mean everything that shall and can exist including sin and the mind and mental processes of the damned. The reason behind the denial? God, when He creates something, does so willingly and deliberately. Unless one wishes to state that God willingly and deliberately created the rebellious mind of Lucifer and sin itself, one must deny that God created EVERYTHING.
It is more logical, given God’s hatred of sin, to say that God created virtually Everything, as opposed to EVERYTHING. “Everything” meaning everything save sin and the mentality of the damned.
With that out of the way we must look, in regard to the existence of sin (and by extension, the mentality of the damned) to the manner in which sin actually occurs, which is in accord to the nature of existence itself.
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III. EXISTENCE 101
Fundamental Laws of Existence Based On Empirical Experience of The Nature of One’s Existence
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Existence appears and manifests only in the form of a person and that which the person experiences.
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Existence does not appear and (controversially) cannot appear in any other form.
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Persons are first-person subjective experiences, and the things they perceive are not ding an sich, composed of something outside the person’s consciousness that is other than/is not that person’s consciousness, but are constructs composed of that person’s subjective experience.
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Consciousness=subjective experience in seven forms
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Given existence only demonstrates itself in the form of subjective experience, there is no evidence of the existence of something other than subjective experience.
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Things such as cars, books, mountains, roads, the bodies of other people, trucks, cars, etc. that people believe exist outside their consciousness and that have a non-consciousness composed doppelganger or counterpart in the external world distinct from the consciousness-composed forms of these objects created by the brain, are actually only constructs made up of the person’s own consciousness, as nothing exists outside the person’s consciousness save the consciousnesses of God and other people.
If a person is just subjective experience and just composed of subjective experience, and a person is a sin-capable/sin-actual being, the sin of which the person is capable and inevitably commits is composed of subjective experience.
Sin is composed of subjective experience, and is subjective experience distinct from every other type of subjective experience that can and shall exist.
If God created Everything save sin and the mental life of the damned, something other than God created sin.
What, then, created sin???
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IV. Theory of The Actual Origin of Sin
A. The Psychic Chaos
The Psychic Chaos, a real, empirical form of Greek Mythological Chaos (in Greek Mythology the unknown liquid or gas that formed the gods, the Titans, humans, and everything that exists), is nothing more remarkable than first-person subjective experience itself conceived as a fundamental matter or substance that comprises everything that shall and can exist, including God.
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“In Hesiod’s Theogony, Chaos was the first thing to exist: “at first Chaos came to be” (or was), but next (possibly out of Chaos) came Gaia, Tartartus, and Eros (elsewhere the name Eros is used for a son of Aphrodite). Unambiguously “born” from Chaos were Erebus and Nyx. For Hesiod, Chaos, like Tartarus, though personified enough to have borne children, was also a place, far away, underground and “gloomy”, beyond which lived the Titans; and, like the earth, the ocean, and the upper air, it was also capable of being affected by Zeus’s thunderbolts.
The notion of the temporal infinity was familiar to the Greek mind from remote antiquity in the religious conception of immortality. The main object of the first efforts to explain the world remained the description of its growth, from a beginning. They believed that the world arose out from a primal unity, and that this substance was the permanent base of all its being."
-Wikipedia, Chaos (cosmogony)
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The concept of the Psychic Chaos is derived from the Berkeleian observation that existence only appears as a person and that which the person experiences, and a person is fundamentally only an experience that experiences. Nothing else demonstrates it exists, thus it is a safe bet that only subjective experience (re: consciousness) exists.
A person is composed of its subjective experience, thus the fact of a person being composed of something, and that something being subjective experience, implies that subjective experience is fundamentally a substance, and given the existence of persons, this fundamental matter or substance, this “Greek mythological Chaos”, only forms persons given the evidence that only persons and their experiences appear.
God, being a Person, is also composed of His brand of subjective experience, thus God is an eternal creation of the Psychic Chaos (Psychic Chaos=first-person subjective experience). God is eternal, and the Psychic Chaos is eternal, thus there was never a moment in which God did not exist, then in the next temporal space was formed by the Psychic Chaos: the Psychic Chaos has always formed God, who was the only person the Chaos created and maintained until it randomly (but super-deterministically) permutated into God creating persons other than Himself.
B. How Does God Create?
If everything is composed of first-person subjective experience and the Psychic Chaos is essentially nothing but first-person subjective experience as a fundamental (and only existing) form of matter, then the manner in which God creates is simply a matter of the Psychic Chaos forming God forming that which God “forms”, which is essentially the Psychic Chaos forming that which is formed in the form of God forming it. Therefore one can render Existence as a duality having two forms of the upper hierarchy of control of all reality.
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God The Substance (The Psychic Chaos)
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God The Person (A formation of the Psychic Chaos that is the anthropormorphic “mascot” of the Chaos, and through whom the Chaos acts)..
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