Hi all! My lovely friend, Andrew, offers my readers the following article goodness on the topic of original sin. I hope you enjoy his wisdom, and may you be richly blessed!
ORIGINAL SIN
Original Sin: the concept that humans are fundamentally flawed, flawed by default, and that redemption is something that can only happen through effort, an outside influence, and/or going against our own nature.
We are therefore *obliged* to go against our own nature – presumably because “we tell you so” since Original Sin doesn’t leave much room for us to improve as a person on our own initiative.
Some people explicitly believe in Original Sin. Other people suspect its truth or live as it were true. Other people are just *scared*, deep down, that it is true. Very few people live without its burden.
The concept of Original Sin is behind governments which attempt to force us to do every little thing that they think would be good for us. (They could instead piggyback humanity’s basic desire to do good and live well). It’s behind parenting systems which use stick-and-poisoned-carrot to force children into prescribed ways of behaviour and pre-decided-upon life paths. (The alternative is Unschooling). It’s behind learning courses, and diets, and exercise regimes, and all manner of other things which encourage you to suffer in order to better yourself. (You can instead leverage your own better nature to make a change).
The truth is there is no Original Sin. There is something in the world that brings us to suffer, that is true. Some call it ego. Some call it darkness. I prefer to call it spiritual immaturity, if I have to give it a name. But whatever it is, it isn’t “original”. The original, fundamental part of our nature is Light. It’s kindness, peace, love, and the fulfilment of every so-called lack we’ve ever had to worry about. It’s everything you ever dreamed about but were scared to imagine could be real because they always told us our lot in life was to suffer.
Spiritual immaturity comes down as a veil over Light. It’s like clouds blocking out the sun. The sun is still there. The sun *created* the clouds and gave life to everything on Earth. The clouds aren’t really real. The sun is real. Light is real.
Instead of fighting what you perceive as your Original Sin, realise that that is just a veil and that everything that is positive about you is inside you, somewhere beyond the veil. Instead of fighting Sin, learn to work with Light. If there is a problem, work with your Light to solve it. Find your Light, and find a way to bring it into your life, and that should be enough.
Usually, I think we don’t have to pay much attention to our perceived spiritual immaturity (which is never really as real as it seems). Insofar as we need to pay attention to it at all, it serves us as a reminder that our Light would like to be brought into the world. After we’ve remembered, we can leave our spiritual immaturity be and work directly with our Light.
Work with the Light in others. Don’t try to fix them. Bring out the Light in them. If they’re showing destructive behaviours, find and work with the authentic desire to do good which, in denial of Original Sin, we assume to be at the heart of all people.
Assume Original Good. Find the Good inside yourself, find the good inside others, and work with it. Assume life was made to be good. Assume we were made to be good. Work to bring out the good that is already there, and allow anything else to die of its own accord as it was made to do.
I hope this inspires some. Much love to all 
