Are We Sinners?

It is said we are all sinners by nature and born separate from God until we come to know Jesus Christ and become children of God. We first see the reference of the word sin in the first offspring of creation in Genesis 4:7 when God tells Cain that “sin is crouching at your door” waiting to take him away if he doesn’t do what is right. Then he kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. Let’s ask some questions now. What is right? How are we supposed to know what right is? So if God is the creator of everything, why did he create something so evil that has a will or a being of its own that is ready to sweep us away if we don’t do what is accepted by God?

  It seems kind of pointless for God to tell us to master sin if he created man that then created sin to be in human nature for the rest of eternity. Some argue that it wasn’t God’s intention for Eve to disobey him and listen to Satan, but doesn’t that downplay the power of God? He didn’t intend for it or didn’t know it would happen? God is omnipotent and omniscient. God also created the deceiving serpent who “was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made”, so I’m pretty confident He knew the capabilities of man to choose to eat an apple on a tree if He knew the capabilities of the snake.

Woah… okay, let’s stop with all this analyzing of the Biblical texts and story of the Genesis. That isn’t what will guide the topics of this book.  All we should have quoted from this book is this: “God saw all that He had made, and it was very good”(Genesis 1:31). This is so often quoted and referenced by people and churches for the purpose of revealing God’s creation of an earth that was INITIALLY good. And then Adam and Eve ruined everything for the rest of us with the Fall of Man right? To me, this verse means so much more than anyone gives it credit for, and I think almost everyone overlooks the truth it rings with. This statement is not an observation- this is a promise. God made the first and foremost promise to all creation. He saw that everything was good. Period. No misinterpretations or law to abide by to upkeep this promise. Behind all God’s creation was purpose, and the purpose was to make all things good in His eyes (even though man would create the idea of evil in its opposite). Genesis drags out far too long after this statement when it could have had such vitality left at this point.

The author then continues along about Eve eating the apple, and now all humans will innately be born with “evil” lurking in our minds and hearts that separates us from the divine. Sound like God did a flip-flop in character there. So what should we believe? For me, this is when P.I. kicks in, or personal intuition. Go inside yourself and feel it out. Does it make sense that a loving God who created an entire universe in order to know Himself and a loving God who gave power to mankind to create in order to find all our true selves would rip instant salvation away from everyone just because of one person’s choice?...... That will not be my God.

Look around you. Breathe in the fresh air outside. Embrace in the arms of a loved one. Smell a nearby flower, hug a tree, taste a leaf from a plant, gaze into the sky, speak to the wind as it brushes past your face and hair. Is that not all real? Is that not all creation? Does that not all seem perfect even just for a split second? THAT was God’s intention that He always has known- for us to EXPERIENCE those moments, experience them and connect with Him and understand that we are all perfect creatures molded by His hands. Sin is just an illusion of the human mind crafted and endorsed through the centuries by authorities in power for the purpose of forcing people to submit and instilling fear. God created us to be imperfectly perfect, just as every other piece of nature may appear in moments of silence. There is no opposing force or evil that maliciously waits to control our souls. Why? Because God created everything in free will to be seen by Him as GOOD.