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The conceptual puzzles plaguing original sin are discussed. Claims regarding sin as avoidance of gratitude (defended in earlier chapters) enable us to overcome these puzzles by endorsing an alternative understanding of original sin and of God’s punishments. The difference between pre-fallen knowledge of good and pre-fallen knowledge of evil is offered. Original sin is argued to consist of a failure to face a conflict between two kinds of love: love as attachment and love as obedience. It is suggested that God must make human beings confront this conflict. As an entity of love, God must give to human beings an entity that they will love more than they love him. Punishment is not retribution. It is, rather, the experience one lives through when God gives created entities what they have wanted. This perspective also brings out the sense in which philosophy is a repetition of original sin.
Title: Fifth Crossroad
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The conceptual puzzles plaguing original sin are discussed.
Claims regarding sin as avoidance of gratitude (defended in earlier chapters) enable us to overcome these puzzles by endorsing an alternative understanding of original sin and of God’s punishments.
The difference between pre-fallen knowledge of good and pre-fallen knowledge of evil is offered.
Original sin is argued to consist of a failure to face a conflict between two kinds of love: love as attachment and love as obedience.
It is suggested that God must make human beings confront this conflict.
As an entity of love, God must give to human beings an entity that they will love more than they love him.
Punishment is not retribution.
It is, rather, the experience one lives through when God gives created entities what they have wanted.
This perspective also brings out the sense in which philosophy is a repetition of original sin.
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