@Jasper10,
Jasper10 wrote:
But it is absolutely and only about rule breaking in my opinion.
Rules are just an attempt to regulate behavior. If a rule says, "don't kill," the purpose is to regulate behavior to prevent killing. The real issue is killing and being killed. If you want to prevent people from killing and being killed, you can make a rule, but what if people don't follow the rule? Then you have to punish them and then you have some people trying to use the rule to justify punishing people without getting in trouble for harming the person they want to harm. So now if they can tempt someone into breaking the rule, they have achieved killing AND hurting of the killer, all without doing the killing themselves OR exerting the punishment unjusttly.
So rules are rules, but the fundamental issue is harm, how it's caused, and how people who do harm ultimately come to experience harm themselves.
Quote:If the Christian rules are correct and I need to keep these rules and I don’t then according to these rules I’m sin and NOT without sin.
The first book of the Bible, Genesis, tell the story of Adam and Eve living prior to sin, but then they end up sinning as a result of getting tricked, and as a result their children are born into sin and so forth through the generations, until Jesus comes along and dies so that humans can henceforth find a path out of sin.
Quote:So in this respect I sit on one side of the fence and not the other.If one side of the fence is 1 ( without sin) and the other side is 0 (with sin) then the only person that sits on the other side is this Jesus man who the bible states is without sin.
People talk about Jesus being without sin because that prevents you from concluding that He died because He was a sinner. Lots of people died by crucifixion and we all die somehow or another in the physical plane. Jesus taught that we should die to the flesh (meaning that we should rise above temptations to sin) and that once we are 'reborn of spirit,' we can begin the long process of allowing God to cleanse us of sin and gradually transform us into something worthy of heaven.
So there is no 1/o sinner or not, because the real issue is whether we as sinners are willing to accept Jesus dying for our sins so that we can confess and repent to God without shame/fear, and thus God can forgive our sins and set us right a little at a time.
Quote:As I know that these 1 and 0 swap as balance is always maintained hence NIHILISM, it does make sense that he swaps with us.He makes his 1 our 1 and our 0 his 0.He effectively takes our place I.e, takes on our sin.Why would he want to do that? This can only be the interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5.21 surely.The formula is then complete.
Are you talking about balance between good and evil, as in yenyang? If so, I would say that does apply to sin, in that the more we confess and repent for sin, the more aware of it we become. It's like if you live in a very dirty home and you are also dirty, you don't notice it but once you take a shower, you notice the dirt around you more.
So there is a sort of balance, where if you are dirty, relative cleanness seems more clean than if you get clean and then the filth appears that much more filthy, while normal cleanness doesn't impress you as much because it has become your new standard.
That is why we can never expect to become perfect or to make this world perfect, i.e. because it is the nature of our perceptions that we will always discover new flaws no matter how perfect we become or how much we work to perfect other things.
If you try to arrange things in an organized way, for example, you can keep zooming in and finding smaller levels of disorder; but then when you get to the level of the molecules/atoms, they are in a state of quantum indeterminacy where they can't stay in one place no matter what you try to do to stabilize them.
So there is this capacity built into us to strive to become better and right wrongs, which is good; but we also have to accept that there is no finish line because of yenyang, i.e. because you can't achieve good in this world without it bringing more bad to light as well. It's not that you're causing bad by striving for good, but that you notice it more because your perception has sharpened in distinguishing good from bad.
