We are fundamentally beings of freedom and love. We are not born into the world “sinful”- meaning in any way opposed to or separated from God. In fact we can never escape God, for that which we call God is our very root and nature, and nothing in all Creation exists apart from it/ Him. In fact, we have come into the world for the very purpose of making hard, messy choices within a set of constraints that permit us to learn to operate lovingly within a hard, messy environment. We are encouraged to use free will, in order to grow and participate in Creation. God knows we are making choices. We are not punished for making choices, even if they harm others. Punishment is not needed: as countless thousands of Near Death Experiences tell us, after our life we will inevitably experience a “life review” process in which we will come to understand and actually feel the full effect that all of our choices had on others, and we will be fully able to judge ourselves. Also, importantly, God in His loving wisdom has set out certain “universal laws” of operation that naturally and inevitably guide each individual in growing toward love. The ability to make mistakes is a necessary part of that process.
Some may say that the sinful and narcissistic nature of man is evident. Yet narcissism is no more than a natural consequence of a yet undeveloped spirit seeking to make choices within challenging constraints. Ego- the erection of self-protective justifications, beliefs, and identity- is no more than a great castle of illusion built by the individual to protect himself from facing his own fear. Man who acts narcissistically is acting from ego and from fear. He does so because his spirit has not “grown up” enough yet to make the more loving or fearless choice within his current history and constraint set, not because he is inherently bad or separated from God in any way.
When my children are whining or fighting, I do not think, “what sinful or selfish people!” Rather, I see joyous and loving beings who are befuddled by a situation. We as adults are not much different. Our ego structures and beliefs may be complex, well justified, and built high over a lifetime- but beneath it all, we, too, are beings of love and light!
Original sin, then, is a myth. The truth is original sinlessness- followed by very real conscious beings making very tough choices in a very real simulation called physical incarnation.
A Walk in the Physical 
Great post!
I firmly believe that the concept of Original Sin was established to reinforce a belief system that requires the participants in it to need that belief system to somehow save them or rely on it to complete themselves. The doctrine of Original Sin serves to erodes the concept of free will as our choices don’t necessarily matter in a belief system where salvation is needed no matter what we choose to do.
I find it interesting that historically speaking the doctrine of Original Sin was developed based on a Babylonian creation myth and used by Irenaeus to resolve a theological dispute with dualistic Gnostics. This was then expanded and codified by St. Augustine during a period when the Church wielded immense political power in the declining Roman Empire. Making the adherents to their belief system even more reliant on the church had a very practical benefit to advancing and maintaining the church’s position of power that would continue to grow for hundreds of years.
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Thank you again Christian. Humans are so good at making simple concepts complicated, particularly if they can control others with their complex ideas. You have torn down the old ideas and shed light on the core which is simple, Love. You have brought the refreshing truth to this world.
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