Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readFeb 26, 2023

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Indeed. Original sin is a rationalization for how a loving and omnipotent God can permit "bad" things to happen to "good" people. There is no such binary. What we perceive as "bad" are simply challenges designed for us to grow spiritually. Challenges that our souls agreed to face as a condition for our incarnation. Challenges we ourselves designed in synchronous coordination with a 100 or so or more other souls with whom we eternally reincarnate into the master class for learning that we call life on earth.

Then you have Rabbi Kushner who reasoned that because bad things happen to good people and God is loving that means God is not omnipotent and sold a shit ton of books with that faulty reasoning.

I agree that we are not born sinful. I interepret the line "in the image of God" to mean that all newborn infants are divinely innocent and loving. Then life takes over and "sin" creeps in.

Re "God makes no errors," I have concluded that "God cannot predict the future. That would eliminate free will from the equation. If God allows a script that ends up being too much for the soul, that doesn’t mean God was wrong — it simply means the soul didn’t rise to the potential that God saw as possible. So, God is as spiritually intelligent as anyone can possibly be but not omniscient." How I came to that conclusion is too much for a comment. If you're interested, https://medium.com/illumination/god-loves-us-unconditionally-45c54c297e52 .

Several months later I wrote: "that the purpose of all of this learning through suffering is so God can learn too. I have discerned that our creators are not omniscient, however, they know more than imaginable, yet I believe they require us so they can continue to learn." https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/how-do-you-define-god-9898492eae9

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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