Comments by "Aga" (@aga5109) on "Yuval Noah Harari on coming out as gay | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.
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I understand the pain and anger of this man. I have respect for his suffering.
God is love. Interpretation of love belongs to people. Misunderstanding of mercy.
" When it comes to etymology, both the English word "sin" and the biblical terms - Hebrew "chatta'ah" and Greek "hamartia" - originally mean going astray or missing the goal. This allows us to see the spiritual situation of "the sinner" in the existential perspective (straying off the trail, missing the meaning of existence), and not in the legal perspective (breaking the rule) or mythological (falling into disgrace of the "higher power").
The abandonment of God's sheep (cf. Is 53:6; Lk 15:1-7), the deviation from the right path to the path to the loss of life in God's love, turning away from God (cf. Prov 14:12; Mt 7:13-14).
Sin is a misfortune into which man has fallen and is stuck - but in which he remains for God a desperately sought precious person, not a hunted criminal.
If sin is missing the Creator, then God's righteousness/justice (dikaiosynē) is His faithfulness to unfaithful creatures.
"If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, because he cannot deny himself" (2 Tim 2:13).
He is not a neutral judge towards us, but a committed saviour and healer (sōtēr).
At the root of every separation from the Word of God- the wisdom inscribed in conscience (cf. Rom 2:15)- there is a painful distrust.
We don't trust the Source of our fulfillment. This is why the only recipe for regaining integrity (returning to right decisions) is trusting faith (pistis) shown to God.
To facilitate it, God reveals His character in the person of the eternal Son, wisdom incarnate, the Logos, who "has pitched his tent (eskēnōsen) among us" (Jn 1:14).
The decision to deviate from the proper course of life, to start to diverge from its meaning (logos), has roots in the mind being infected with the original lie.
The Bible teaches about the infiltration into man of the thought that fulfillment ("being like God") can be achieved only against the Creator (cf. Gen 3:5)".
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