We should see
that human beings can never retreat into the realm of what they are
capable of, therefore they themselves and creation with its good and
evil are always present, and when they reject this standard they do not
free themselves but place themselves in opposition to the truth. This
then is the first and most important thing that appears in the story of
Adam and it has to do with human guilt and with our entire existence.
The order of the Covenant, the nearness of God of the Covenant, the
limitation impose by Good and evil, the inner standard of the human
person, creatureliness; all of these is placed in doubt. Here we could
at once said that at the very heart of sin lies human being's denial of
their creatureliness, they do not want to be creatures, do not want to
subject to the standard, do not want to be dependent. They consider
their dependence on God's creative love to be an imposition from
without! Human beings who considered dependence on the highest love
slavery and who tried to denied the truth about themselves which is
their creatureliness, do not free themselves. They destroyed truth and
love, they do not make themselves gods which in fact they cannot do but
rather caricatures pseudo gods, enslaves with their own ability which
then drag them down...
-pbxvi
-pbxvi
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