Origami and Sin
Well, snap! I might get to teach an origami class! I met with a lady at a place called the "Homegrown Facility," and we chatted about setting up some classes.
It's always strange to imagine you'll get to do the things you actually like to do. I've had some great times sitting with random friends and acquaintances and working through making little paper thingies. We shall see!
In other news, I'm tired. I've been sleeping like a turd.
In other other news, HOLY SNAP! BUT WHAT! WHAT WHAT! Scary stuff, but I'm trusting God. I still feel weird on my insides, but I might survive.
In more news, this song is epic. I've been listening to it most of today feeling like I should be in battle or riding a dragon or mining in a magical mountain. It obviously reminds me of Skyrim, but it's still impressive how much detail they put into that game. It was a veritable work of art.
I was talking with a friend about life, and my friend asked, "Why is it so hard?"
I don't know, I said. I don't know. I wanted to say, "because of sin," but it sounded so trite, so empty, so useless, so senseless, but I think that's why sin is the answer.
In this article, Adam Parker talks about it at length. I forget where I first read that notion: "Sin doesn’t make sense, not in the smallest sense." That's probably the only sense we can make out of sin though. The whole idea of sin is that it rejects God — the Creator of Sense, Order, Logic, Purpose, Reason. I'm not even going to attempt it. Too many books have been written about sin. All of them may have provided some shred of wisdom to a scholar, but all of them have left the plain reader dissatisfied.
And every scholar is a plain man when left alone with his thoughts.
It's always strange to imagine you'll get to do the things you actually like to do. I've had some great times sitting with random friends and acquaintances and working through making little paper thingies. We shall see!
In other news, I'm tired. I've been sleeping like a turd.
In other other news, HOLY SNAP! BUT WHAT! WHAT WHAT! Scary stuff, but I'm trusting God. I still feel weird on my insides, but I might survive.
In more news, this song is epic. I've been listening to it most of today feeling like I should be in battle or riding a dragon or mining in a magical mountain. It obviously reminds me of Skyrim, but it's still impressive how much detail they put into that game. It was a veritable work of art.
I was talking with a friend about life, and my friend asked, "Why is it so hard?"
I don't know, I said. I don't know. I wanted to say, "because of sin," but it sounded so trite, so empty, so useless, so senseless, but I think that's why sin is the answer.
In this article, Adam Parker talks about it at length. I forget where I first read that notion: "Sin doesn’t make sense, not in the smallest sense." That's probably the only sense we can make out of sin though. The whole idea of sin is that it rejects God — the Creator of Sense, Order, Logic, Purpose, Reason. I'm not even going to attempt it. Too many books have been written about sin. All of them may have provided some shred of wisdom to a scholar, but all of them have left the plain reader dissatisfied.
And every scholar is a plain man when left alone with his thoughts.
Best wishes for the origami class...how fun!
ReplyDelete"Every scholar is a plain man when left alone with his thoughts."--Nicely put. True, very true, even for women--haha!
The problem of evil was a huge philosophical conundrum for me in young adulthood--not that I'm any further in solving it now, of course! Having grown up in the church, when it came time to think through my faith and decide if I was going to own it for myself, I was plagued by the question: where did evil/sin come from? All of the answers were problematic in one way or another. Finally in a college philosophy class I had an epiphany: if the problem of evil is crippling to the believer, the problem of good is even more incapacitating to the atheist! Which one of us, when oppressed by some great injustice, will not protest in our hearts, "That is not fair! It's just not right!" And yet, without a God who is the ultimate Source, how can we posit the existence of concepts such as Goodness, Fairness, or "Rightness?" That didn't answer the question for me--as you said, all the arguments leave the plain reader dissatisfied--but it did help, in a presuppositional kind of way, comparing one argument (or worldview) against another. Later, I heard someone say that if evil could be explained, if it had a useful purpose, it would earn a rightful place in God's universe. The fact that evil defies logic and creates ugly holes the philosophical fabric of everything demonstrates that it doesn't belong in this good (albeit now fallen) world that God created.
What I liked about the article you shared is that it didn't stay in the academic plane. It brought it home to the heart, exploring what the irrationality of sin means to us personally. And it didn't allow us to squirm off the hook of acknowledging that sin is within us. May God excise the sin out of our hearts--or better yet, remove our heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26)--a feat utterly impossible except for Christ.
Heather! When are you going to start your own blog?! I have to read it!
DeleteNow why would I go and do a thing like that when I can just piggyback off of your blog and comment on the interesting topics you post? Hahaha, my plate is quite full enough. Thank you, though.
DeleteVery well. I do appreciate your thoughtful and thought-provoking responses!
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