Can You Imagine a World without Sin?

Life Without Sin


Can you imagine that? What would that look like?

Allow me some sci-if geekiness to illustrate or; at least, set the background. Ex Machina is a movie that wrestles with artificial intelligence (AI). Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it and might want to, stop reading, go watch it, think about it for a day and then come back to this article. The quest for AI is to create a machine that is self-aware and can think for itself having it's own desires and agenda. The interesting thing for this movie is that it woke me up in the middle of the night thinking about it. Well, that and the Mexican food indigestion.

This AI machine wound up having it's own agenda and demonstrated it by behaving very selfishly. It became narcissistic. It wound up doing some bad things to decent and good people in order to preserve it's own "life." It did evil to protect itself.It was manipulative in order to achieve it's goal.
So...is that sin? Is that what makes us autonomous humans? Is our desire for our own rights, agenda and fulfilling our needs or wants what makes us human? Does our self focus define our humanity?

In case you are wondering, the biblical definition of sin is rebellion and lawlessness against God. It is also falling short of the mark defined by God. Thus, God gets to define what sin is. Every human on earth does not get to have their own definition of sin, good and evil. There is either one definition of sin or none. There cannot be 7 billion different definitions for sin.

Here is some more sci-fi geekiness. A new Star Wars movie will arrive soon. People are going nuts with anticipation. What makes these so popular and iconic? The adventures are grand. The scale is huge: galactic in fact. The plots are fun. The imagery and action are unique. But without the concept of the force and good versus evil, they would not hit us at our soul issues. The force hits a core in humans. We want to believe in good. We want to believe in power. We want power to do good. The problem is that our experience shows us that you cannot have good without evil. We always observe this as a battle.

The force is intriguing because it hits an innate desire we all have and wrestle with. Are we truly autonomous? Do we make our own decisions? Does fate impact us? Can we have control over our own destiny? And if we have power, would we use it for good? Always? Or would we be inclined toward selfish motives and actions? Why is the dark side so powerful and so easy to fall into? Why is emotion and passion only a tool toward and for the dark side?

That Mexican food is really keeping me awake here in the middle of the night. Or maybe it is these concepts. Or both?

Can we imagine a life without sin? John Lennon wrote a famous song about his version of this. But if you look closely at his life, you will find he stunk at it. His narcissism essentially broke up the Beatles. What a jerk? He was not nearly as much of a musician or singer as Paul was. He was jealous. Just look at Paul's post Beatles track record and popularity. John was abusive of people and especially women. His track record was narcissistic control with fits of rage. He was violent and domineering. His Imagine song seems like a pipe dream he had a desire for but could not fulfill.

Can you imagine a world without sin? Can you imagine your own life without sin? Can you imagine you not sinning? What would this all look like? What would earth be like without sin? Here are some thought points:

No one would kill any human, ever. There would be no killing. Period. No religious wars. No political wars. No serial killers driven by whatever weird, narcissistic motives drive them. No gang violence for power, turf, drugs or money.

There would be no addictions. No abuse of alcohol or drugs to numb pain. Of course, if there were no sin, there would be no pain and thus, no reason to numb ourselves for a time in order to avoid it.

There would be no hatred. There would be no arguing. There would be no fighting or controlling others. Humans would not misuse, abuse or even use others. There would be very little internet comments since there would be no trolls causing fights over any and everything just because they can. There would be no dislike button since there would be no need for it.

There would be no laws! Everyone would do what was right and best for each other. We would not spend billions of dollar$ fighting for our own rights and desires. We would really be free. So, there would be no need for police or prisons or armies or weapons; well, except to protect us from animals that may want to eat us. Or maybe that desire by animals would be gone too.

This is all just to whet your appetite for such a world. There will be such a place. It will eventually happen. I know a guy. Well actually, I know The Guy Who will make all this happen.

So if this causes you to think, let's dialogue about this and have a fun discussion about the topic and what that place would look like. If, however, you are a troll and just looking for a battle so you can spew your agenda without having a conversation and listening to others, please excuse yourself because you are not invited nor welcome to participate.

Let's day dream or night awake think, like I am now as the Mexican food with too much fat and peppers is keeping me up. I love you. I long for what is truly best for you; not merely, what you think will make your existence happy. There is only true freedom and peace found in dying to self and letting The Guy live His sinless life through you.

Have a great day, or night, or everything. Just, have a great! Have a great life. Pursue a sinless life. Help show the world a life without sin. Be an example. Make the world a better place. Give people hope. There will eventually be a world without sin. Start your own circle of a world without sin. Seek the best for others. Help them to dream and create a world without sin. Let's spread this healthy dis-ease. Let's be the force for good. Let's use our passions. emotions and energy to create and do good.

A world, a universe, a galaxy without sin is what we were made for. It is what our soul desires. We just cannot and do not bring it about when we focus on ourselves, our needs/wants, our desires for our rights to be met or allowed and our own personal agenda that our dark side truly drives.

Live passionately and enthusiastically. Do good. Create good. Find out what real love is and do and be that. Be love. Focus on others. Create your own little influential circle of love and good where sin is not.

What would that look like?