Original Sin By Anthony Faber, Phd. Perpetual (C)Copyright an (P)Patent by Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism, P.C.

(PA) and The American People and The People of God and The People The idea of Original Sin is generally credited to Saint Augustine. Original Sin is defined as the propensity of a person to choose evil rather than good. It is generally thought that the Christian Sacraments such as Baptism, Confession, Communion, and Confirmation, as well as Prayer and Meditation, also reduce the effects of Original Sin. Original Sin is generally

attributed to the Fall from Grace of Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, where Eve, contrary to Gods Command, ate of the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and then got Adam to eat of the Fruit of Good and Evil himself, upon which God expelled them from the Garden of Eden onto the Earth. Now, the Adam and Eve Story is to some degree symbolic. What the Story really tells us is

the Adam and Eve, and most of humanity who have started with the good as their end, then chose Evil as their End, rather than keeping the good, or even better choosing The Good, as their end. When a person knowingly, and of his or her or hae own Freewill, chooses Good or Evil as his or her or hae end, then this is what theologians call The Fundamental Option. Now, some persons choose the good as their end, and they end up being ordinary people who are moderately good. Others choose their own Individual Good, as their end, and they end up being persons who recognize and utilize Higher Values and Higher Emotions in their lives and existences and are typically known as gods, or Saints, or Angels or Archangels. Then, there are those who keep evil as their end, but still manage to participate in the Sacraments

and develope lives of Prayer and Meditation, and these are known as saints. Most people seem to be saints who have rejected capital E Evil and instead have chosen e evil or relative evil as their end. Now, any person who has chosen some aspect of The Good as his or her or hae end, only has a small dose of Original Sin, if any, and basically follows rational self interest or Rational Self Interest. Given the foregoing, it should be noted that a persons end affects how that person thinks. Those with a large dose of Original Sin have a difficult time thinking logically and have a difficult time being reasonable and have intuition that does not work very well. The most these people can do is to find a reasonable authority and then do their best to memorize what they are to do, as a general rule. When such a person runs into a problem that he or she or hae cannot solve, such a person consults a reasonable authority for help, such as, a priest, a lawyer, or a family member who is considered Wise. least, the good, not evil. On the other hand, a person who is reasonable, generally does well as long as The System is reasoanble, and as long as most persons that they deal with are reasonble. If there are person around who have chosen Evil as their End, typically known as satanists, then reason is typically not enough to deal with such people, and instead Wisdom is needed. Wisdom, while it is good, according to the Bible, is curvelinear rather than more linear as reason is. Wisdom uses Caluclus, while reason uses linear geometry and algebra. Wisdom understands evil to some degree and comes up with countermeasures against evil, while reason typically does not. Reason understands that which is reasonable, not that which is unreasonable or irrational such as Evil. So, it is generally recommended that a person does everything he or she or hae can to reduce the effects or his or he or hae Original Sin. The Open Cross symbolizes the self sacrifice that Wisdom is of course ordered towards The Good, or at

many are required to make to be reasonable and to reject irrational evil and Original Sin. In this sense, the book, Original Blessing, by Matthew Fox is wrong. The Open Cross is Good not Evil, and Original Sin can only be lessened to the point of having Wisdom. Original Sin can never be totally done away with. Although Jesus and Mary and others could, in theory, do away with Original Sin entirely, instead they choose to retain a small amount so that they have Wisdom and understand the Nature of Reality, rather than being totally naive and out of touch with reality and everyday life. In this sense, the God we know is Imperfectly Perfect, and Reality is Aunitary, and is not some static, unchanging perfection. If the Jesus of Perfection did Exist, I suspect that the End of the World for Him and others was around the Year 70 A.D., upon the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and Jerusalem itself, where Jesus and approximately 177,000 others were assumed into the Perfection of Heaven, never to be heard from again by the rest of us. Those who were left, found the Jesus and the World and the Universe and the Reality that I have discussed which is Aunitary and Imperfectly Perfect not Perfect, as such, at all. The only Universal that we have is Logic, and nothing else.