Tim Cuttings

SIN: A Philosophical Approach
By
Tim Cuttings
Sin is not as simple as we merely understand it; and its load is not as heavy as we think but enslaving as we never expect. The mystery of sin lies in its ability to treat mankind with equal servitude. It doesn’t matter whether or not you are a rich man the shackles of sin are in constant grip on you. Ostensibly, one of the weakest points of a mortal man is in his inability to determine the most powerful phenomenon between death and sin.
The origin and outcomes of sin cannot be summarized so neatly, as some sects of the Christian religion may have it. It might be true however, that sin existed during post creature before the antediluvian period and the cunning aggressive entrance of sin on the earth brought about an unusual separation between God and man.
God, the creator of mankind endowed the biological parents of the human race not only with natural powers and talents but also with specific gifts such as immortality of body as well as of soul, extraordinary sagacity and flawless harmony between higher and lower appetites, and desires.
Above all, they were admitted through divine grace to the friendship of God, and it was in a way beyond the demands of nature. All these special and supernatural endowments were lost by their recalcitrance; just as it is, Jewish and Christian traditions find the first sin in the disobedience of Adam and Eve, the effect of which pass by way of generation to their descendants.
The worst that can happen to a mortal man is not death but the slavery that sin puts men into, and the worst mastership over man is not that of Idi’Amin of Uganda, Sani Abaccha of Nigeria or Adolf Hitler Alois of Germany but of sin.
When one’s spiritual life has gone down to the weakest point of mortal weariness; being entangled by sins of commission, omission, permission and emotion, he becomes a burden unto himself and a slave to sin. Man is laden with the responsibility to choose between righteousness and sin however; his inability to distinct righteousness from sin is what reduces him to an existing creature instead of a living being.
Lack of self control and mismanagement of mortal desires are the cardinal attributes of sin. Essentially, the possibility of living a sinless life is not so true to real life however; the possibility of living a sinful life is cogent to a mortal life but risky to the human soul.
Man may not fully understand why he is to live a supposedly sinless life, until he comes to the knowledge of where he comes from and why he is temporarily living on this planet.
It is not in the least likely that mankind is vulnerable to the attack of sin, whose origin might be an issue of contradiction among religious dogmas. Nevertheless, the most sensible thing man has to know is that there is no provision for divine security against the attack of sin and that explains why abstractly, the general overseer of the Christian Faith (Lord Jesus) once said to His disciples, “Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation”, (Luke 21: 36).
Sin has no respect for anybody, Pope or Bishop, President of Governor and Rich or Poor man. It is never tamed or overcome by being careful but by leaning on God for allegiance. Carefulness or self control is only 10% to uprightness, and the divine origin of the scriptures or Holy Ghost given enablement is 90% to it.
Comparatively, it would not be of least relevance to realize that we live in generation and culture where the concept of sin has apparently become entangled in legalistic arguments over right and wrong. Moreover, when sin is mentioned, most people think of violations of the Ten Commandments, and even so some people tend to deem murder and adultery as major sins compared to lying or stealing.
Sin is a threat unto the harmony that exists between man and his Creator, and mankind will never stop sinning until he turns to the sensibility of the judgment of the first action to be considered as sinful and who undertook the action.
The embedment of bad in good or the association of bad with good might be the sole cause of sin in the world. This philosophy depicts that there is nothing new in the world, owing to the fact that God created everything as of the time of creation. By everything, it should down on our minds that both good and bad things were created to make the world complete however; God knows why He did everything.
In this life of mortal existence, the most essential possession man would ever acquire is Power. No matter what a man may be, as long as he lives without power, he is enormously nothing.
Conventionally, in this world of sin and shame, the necessity for man to be acquainted to God his creator is the cardinal aim of a mortal man but the gravity of sin, which is a hindrance to the bridge of amalgamation that exists between God and man has become a mountain so difficult to smash.
Avoid sin as if it were a snake. If you get too near, it will sink its teeth into your soul like a lion, and destroy you. Every lawless act leaves an incurable wound, like one left by a double-edged word. If a person is too poor to afford sin, he can rest without a guilty conscience.
The prodigal paradigm Satan has put in place to mar the grandeur of man is recalcitrance to the word of God. Not only recalcitrance to God’s word but also counterfeiting the divine law of liberty, which is putting anomalous permutations to the objectivity of Christianity and promoting churchgoing in interference with Christianity.

To be continued!