Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Philosophy of Sin.

Sin is the negation of the commands of God.You have sinned towards God and also towards humans whenever a law or code of ethics is broken .
There are however 3 different philosophys of sin.

1) Sin is inherited.
The first and original sin is the sin of Adam and Eve,This is the sin of disobeying Gods command not to eat the fruit of knowledge.
All Jews ,Christians and Muslims belief in this sin but they differ in that the Christians belief that the original sin is inherited by all humans and that all humans can only be forgiven by God only though or by praying to Jesus, because Jesus is according to them,the son of God.
Jews ,Muslims,Hindus and other religions ofcourse do not belief in such kind of philosophy of sin.With this philosophy of sin the Christians managed to have monopoly over Gods fogiveness and Heaven.Whether this philosopy is true or false is irrelevant, but it certainly is a clever way of playing a game of monopoly and and politics.

2) Sin is not inherited.
The second philosophy of sin as beliefed by Muslims and other religions is that a child is born sinless and the only sin when they have grown to recognise the ethics and law of God from the people who teach them.
This philosophy is easier to understand and is without strings attached. The rational of Jesus having to carry other peoples sin is not very logical.Everyone should shoulder theier own responsibility to sin or not to sin.What justice is there if someone else suould carry someone else sin.
This philosophy of sin therefore turns upside down the the Christians philosophy.

3) There is no Sin
The third philosophy of sin is one that is undestood and believed by the philosophers, Sufis and gnostics of every religion.This philosophy of sin is based on the unity of God. God is the creator of all things. He created the angels and also created the satans.This makes Him the originator of good and bad. Verses of the Quran point to the fact that it is He who guides whoever he wishes and it is He too who misguides whomever he wishes.This makes us humans very like robots, or as stated in the Quran ..a slave of God..without a will power of his own. God is said to be the creator of all including how your brain functions.
Thus having lost their ability to sin,they do not think of heaven or hell.They only ask for God. Good and evil is distinguished as what is stated in the Books of God.One is punished for sins by the laws of a government.
On the other hand the philosophers have argued that, our ability to sin is dependent on the conditioning of our brain.Threfore it is society that is responsible for our sin, for having programmed us as such, whether a Muslim,Christian,Hindum or an atheist.
There is also a philosophy said to be taht of Shakespear, thatt "We are all actors. The world is a stage ,and God is the Director".

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