Where sin lies
"'It is you who make sin exist, when you act according to the habits of your corrupted nature; this is where sin lies.'
...It is obvious that the word corrupted as used here has no sexual connotation. As in the Bible, corruption is related to the deeper meaning of idolatry: taking as Real that which is merely relative or, as Kierkegaard said, making the relative absolute, and making the absolute relative.
In other words, the dramatic “sin” of the contemporary world is its relativizing of the absolute, and its absolutizing of the relative. It is hard to imagine a better description of the nature of corruption.
This is a sickness of the intelligence as well as of the heart. It espouses its perceptions as Truth, thereby betraying both Truth and itself. One of the most painful consequences of this shortsightedness, this disorientation of desire, is taking yourself for what you are not, identifying yourself with an image."
Excerpt from:
Leloup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (pg. 50-51). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.
It is the end of 2017 and one thing is clear... this world is completely doomed. Nevermind the book of Revelation (though according to my estimates, we are easily somewhere within the first 6 chapters of that prophetic book on the Apocalypse, in real time). All biblical prophecy aside, we are diving into the shallow end of a fast-draining pool. Doomsaying makes for no business unless you either sell insurance, or you are a preacher or politician. I am/do none of these. Rather my burden is that of a horrified observer, watching the entire world run itself off a cliff that cannot simply stand idly by without opening my mouth in warning.
My goal is not to have you share in my misery, instead I seek to shed light on the truth. The world has always hated, shunned, rejected and martyred truth-tellers, they are forced quiet and their light is extinguished from the face of the earth. Today the vast majority of the population is literally blinded by egotism, selfishness and wealth-seeking idolatry, and we are too blind to see that the earth itself, as we know it, is either dead already or in its last throes. Our lifestyle is not, on a whole, sustainable. All our efforts to "go green" are useless diversions from the inescapable fact: this world is dying and will no longer be recognizable before many of us here alive taste death.
War is taking its toll, greed is taking its toll, corruption is taking its toll, selfishness and unbelief are taking their toll. Passing the buck has taken its toll. Yes, believe it or not, the buck does stop somewhere, it does fall into someone's lap, eventually. That time is now, and the lap that must bear the burden is our very own.
The point, the message, the take-away, the moral? There isn't one. "Seek ye God while he may yet be found," and Lord have mercy on all our souls. May God be with you and strengthen you to the end. And one last word of caution: these End of Days scenarios you see in movies, where everything is wiped clean in an instant and all the "saved" are miraculously taken up in a cloud before the mayhem starts: those scenes and everything like them is myth, and are rooted in baseless superstitions instead of orthodox, scriptural truth. Don't believe me? I dare you to actually open a bible and pinpoint where it all goes down as such, you will not be able to. Likely it will not all start and be over in the flash of a moment; the process has already begun and could very well (by all accounts and in closely following scripture), take decades, if not centuries. A world does not die as humans die, in an instant. A world dies gradually, assuredly and slowly... with time.
6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
- Isaiah 55
