Does this mean, then, that if you fail to morally educate your children, that then they are incapable of sin? Is it a sin, then, to give your children a moral education, thus basically feeding them the apple of knowledge and making them capable of sin? But if you don't do that, then they're incapable of living harmoniously in human society. Which is why I (from my Pagan perspective, admittedly) regard the acquisition of moral knowledge as a _positive_ event - humanity growing up, becoming fully human, closer to God, not farther away. (Can God sin? Or does God simply choose not to? If God can't sin, is God omnipotent?) We took the burden of self-knowledge and moral understanding upon ourselves, likely without a full understanding of the implications of that choice, but with that act we also took on a great gift as well. When you can choose to be evil, choosing good means infinitely more. The best people are not the people with no evil tendencies in their souls - they're the people who understand and overcome their own propensity towards evil, and who nurture and encourage their own propensity towards good. To paraphrase Lois McMaster Bujold's latest, God/dess/es appear to hunger for glorious souls, not perfect ones.
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But if you don't do that, then they're incapable of living harmoniously in human society.
Which is why I (from my Pagan perspective, admittedly) regard the acquisition of moral knowledge as a _positive_ event - humanity growing up, becoming fully human, closer to God, not farther away. (Can God sin? Or does God simply choose not to? If God can't sin, is God omnipotent?) We took the burden of self-knowledge and moral understanding upon ourselves, likely without a full understanding of the implications of that choice, but with that act we also took on a great gift as well. When you can choose to be evil, choosing good means infinitely more. The best people are not the people with no evil tendencies in their souls - they're the people who understand and overcome their own propensity towards evil, and who nurture and encourage their own propensity towards good.
To paraphrase Lois McMaster Bujold's latest, God/dess/es appear to hunger for glorious souls, not perfect ones.