Monday, January 17, 2011
The Fall by Plantinga
When God created the world, everything was good. At the beginning, Adam and Eve has chosen to live against God, against each other, and against God's world according to Plantinga. This is when sin entered our world. We all know that we are sinful and fallen creatures. "According to Genesis 3 and Romans 5, our whole race 'has a habit' where sin is concerned... the corruption and guilt of our first parents have run right down the generations, tainting us all." Sin has shadowed God's good creation. Sin has corrupted us and separated us from God. Here, the danger is that when we corrupt ourselves and do corrupted acts, we could also corrupt others. Even with customs and traditions, if we live in a culture with sinful customs and traditions, sin will look normal. Yet, it is not normal and it is hard to realize it is bad because everyone else does it. For example, in the book 'Things Fall Apart' it talks about bad traditions that the African village called Umuofia had. Having twins was a devil thing. So every time someone had twins, the mother had to abandon her children in the wood and leave them by themselves to starve to death or even taken by any wild animal. This tradition was normal for the African people in this village, but it is not good. We have to be careful and not let sin become a habit. We have to be careful so that sin won't look like something normal, because sin comes from Satan. Sin is not good and it goes against God's nature. We had corrupted the world with sin. However, we still have hope. The good part of this story is that God has sent His one and only son to this world so that through Him we can be saved. This corrupted world can become good through God. So I think we should just rely on God who is good and holy instead of wondering around the sinful world.
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It is such a hard thing to see that sin is abnormal. It is something that we all do all the time. No matter what we do, in some shape or form sin is present but this is abnormal. God is the standard for normalcy, and God stands in opposition to sin. Good post!
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