No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond. — René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
adam as atom, undivided unity. eve as threshold, catalyst for differentiation. the fall is emergence of meaning through separation.
eating from the tree collapses infinite potential into binaries like good/evil, self/other. differentiation initiates recursion.
sin is the awareness of separat... See more
ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽ ͽx.com“In God's heart and in his love, each one of us has always existed. From all eternity God saw each one of us as an idea or thought in his divine mind, and for each one from all eternity he has a special and distinctive plan.
We have always existed for him; creation signifies that at a certain point in time we begin to exist also for ourselves.” - Ka
... See moreSaint Ignatius of Loyola said that sin is an unwillingness to trust that what God wants is our deepest happiness. Until we are convinced of this, we will seek to control our own lives.