All are flawed, some more than others but we are all flawed, right? Therefore, if there is a God, eternity is the fix for all. The theft and eating of the apple in the Garden of Eden, is a biblical story giving legs to an obvious fact of human life, a fact we all share. Being banished from the forever garden or being born to human parents is one and the same, a separation from ultimate, eternal values and a death sentence. A separation and sentence we all share, therefore, we all will be ultimately fixed by the power of eternity. This I so believe.
Religion is
a pill to relieve our lost or flawed symptoms but is powerless to change or fix
our selfish human nature which is bound to each individual in this life. From garden to grave, our human nature is to
kill, expressed in all manner of ill will toward others, our personal or
corporate enemies. Violence and the need to destroy, it is who we are. “If I don’t get my way or if I am hungry or if
I must defend myself, I will kill to get what is desired.” That is what we say in our innermost souls
while we vehemently deny this compulsion from the housetops. Those who deny the
loudest seem to be, if truth were told, the most culpable. Yes, this is relative culpability but we are
all culpable to some degree, in some measure, in our thought patterns and/or daily
practice (Sermon on the Mount).
Jesus and universalism.
