Saturday, March 7, 2009

Guilty

This a list of things I think people should feel guilty about. Everything else they shouldn't, even if they do.
-Murder
-Rape
-Malice physical or emotional
-Stealing
- Conscious and purposeful neglect of the helpless
-adultery
Of course this list is way too general. But.. I do believe that people feel guilty about really silly things most of time. Of course, people are not often feeling guilty about an action but about a feeling. Not to mention that I believe Jesus spoke a true word when we said that "it's not what goes into a man that defiles him (such as unkosher foods) but what comes out". (paraphrase). The problem with guilt, though it may be justified is, that it is a sham for a motivator. For when you begin to do good out of the need to get rid of the icky feeling of guilt you simply reap another reason to feel guilty, and that is your own lurking unfaithfulness to yourself. It's a vicious cycle. What we all need is to be freed from guilt alltogether. You cannot, some people think they can, just stop feeling guilty, or beat sin head on, or become enlightened to the holiness of everything, in order to get rid of the feeling of guilt. You must realize that in Jesus' death on the cross, not only was freedom from the feeling of guilt accomplished, but in reality guilt itself was removed from the equasion, and that faith in that fact along with his resurrection is freedom from not the mere feeling of guilt, but also freedom from actual guilt, so that "guilt" becomes motivation because "condemnation", the real feeling that we call "guilt", is not a reality. In Jesus, we are free to live in the spirit, free to do what's right, free to fall off the horse and get back up again, free from final condemnation, motivated to press on without ever despairing.

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