Qualities within sins
Did you know that every manifestation of the human soul was initially positive?
Current sins such as condemnation, greed, anger and hate were positive characteristics of the human soul.
God gave them to us to help us to do good, stay away from evil and reach a higher state of completeness.
Let me explain my view.
Gifts hidden in defects
Sins, no matter how repulsive they may look in their current state, are an expression of the power of our soul and a sign of it’s capacity. Sins are qualities put to use in a wrong way.
Every sin can be turned from a defect into a quality.
Let’s take anger an hate as examples. General understanding sees them as big defects and grave sins. But this isn’t necessarily right…
My view
Anger was given to us so that we could get angry at the evil inside of us. It was meant to use it on our own person but nowadays we are using it against other people, and mostly to do harm. By twisting it’s use, it has turned from a blessing into a sin. We should get angry on ourselves whenever we do something wrong…
The same could be said about hate. Hate is another capacity of our soul meant to help us stay away from evil. It wasn’t given to us to use it against others, but against the concept of evil (man should hate evil). You can’t hate evil and continue to to bad things, it’s just impossible. If you hate evil you do good.
Condemnation is a basic manifestation of the soul which is used to criticize, to differentiate good from evil, to do good and condemn evil. Today, this is also put to use in a twisted way, because it wasn’t meant to criticize and condemn other human beings, it was meant to be used on our own person, to fight our weaknesses and to be able to know good from evil.
And I could continue this list, but I think you already got my point.
As a conclusion
Just like a lawnmower won’t be of any help if it’s put to prepare dinner, the qualities of our soul won’t do us any good if we use them the wrong way.
It’s like buying a car to run people over, instead of using it to get from point A to point B.
We use instruction manuals for many gadgets, maybe we could use a good one four our soul…
Learn to do good, try and help as many people as you can and don’t judge or condemn them because of their faults.
Final point
Stop looking at other people’s faults, find your own first and fight them. The change starts within you.
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Interesting post! I’m not sure if we should “fight” our faults (of which I have plenty, by the way) or “heal” them. Just a thought.
Lee, you’re right in a way… Maybe what we need to do is try and minimize the impact of our faults on other people.
It all depends on the personal view of each individual.
Love this article as well:)
Thank you for your feedback Briana.