thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-12, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Joshua, thanks. I'm not interested in Original Sin in the sense of "Adam and Eve did a bad thing, so now we're all going to be punished forever"; I am interested in being originally sinful in the sense of "all humans screw up, by nature"—and no, I don't think that's merely unfortunate environmental influences, I think that's how we are inherently.
Vincent, understood. I just want love to win in the end.
Tony: You're giving me useful ideas, too. In particular: My take is that God, like a hologram or a piece of the T-1000, is always entirely present no matter how small the expression. I think what I'm trying to say that God is fractal: Any piece of Him, from the Holy Spirit within me to the Holy Spirit within a grain of sand, is infinitely complex in a way that reflects the complexity of the whole, but the whole is still more than any one piece, or even the sum of all the pieces.
