{The Weight of Sin (1)}[29th November 1987]

[Redbook4:180][19871129:2107d]{The Weight of Sin (1)}[29th November 1987]

19871129.2107

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Arising out of a recent conversation about lies... how is the weight of sin assessed? Here is an attempt to deal with this.

Sin is wrong (i.e. is sin) because it is evil*, and insofar as it is evil.

*[See next entry. The word “sin”, despite its difficult connotations in modern ears, is used here and elsewhere in these Journals presumably because no other word quite fits. -- The use of the word “sin” has unfortunate resonances at present, including prescriptive and sometimes arbitrary “moral” judgements, censure and punishment delivered from a subjectively claimed “superior” position. The word is I think used in these journal entries because no better way (“evil” and “wrong” for example describing different aspects of the Separation) can be found to describe succinctly something which is in this model “terrifyingly objective”**** – see e.g. [Redbook4:99][19871005:0940d]{[The Dynamic Independence of Angels [continued (3)]] -- Good Spirits, evil spirits, and Men [continued]}[5th October 1987].]

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