ext_234054 ([identity profile] elyse24601.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] psalm_onethirtyone 2008-03-14 04:05 am (UTC)

Lady, from what I understand about sin it's that we're all guilty of it. We're human, we can't help it. I have a negative pride thing going on where I selfishly put myself down to get others to compliment me and other people sleep with their neighbors' spouses and some governors run high-end prositition rings. Absolutely no one's perfection. Even Jesus had table-turning-over temper tantrums.

Thing is, with Christianity, we acknowledge the sin and we're washed clean of it. We let God step in and fix the crumbly bits of ourselves and the sharp, shattered bits of our souls broken in the Fall. I've had a lot of trouble with the idea myself- God wanting us to be perfect and all. That's impossible for anyone human.

We're not the ones who need to overcome ourselves from sheer force of will. All we need to do is to let go of the controls and let God step in. Gaining our lives by losing them and all- it's God who makes things change, not us, hard as that is to accept.

For what it's worth, I don't think you're arrogant in the slightest. Feel better, lady. They didn't ask about your sin because that's already been forgiven. <3

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