The original sin, is it
really insubordination or an expression of freedom?
Background
In the Bible's original sin is
mentioned as an attempt by man to resemble God. According to the story, the man
eating the forbidden fruit wanted to have access to the source of knowledge, a
claim that God seemed excessive and therefore decided to expel him from
paradise.
Actually, what original sin is it?
Rather than the possibility of access to the knowledge that God is awarded as
his only option, this story is a metaphor to mark the discovery of the creative
capacity which achieves the gradual domination of the world. Expulsion paradise
is only cognitive opening opens the mind to the creative possibilities but also
warns of the risk, effort and sometimes unexpected consequences.
A person who lacks mental or
cognitive faculties suffer from deformities or physical limitations against
their will (eg extreme dementia or congenital malformations) is happy (
"it is in Heaven") if you have basic needs met. No pressure to ask
questions or worry about the meaning of existence, to worry about tomorrow or
imagine and make the mental or physical effort to achieve the transformation of
nature. Knowledge is alien and the need to achieve is an unknown and nonexistent
feeling forever.
A normal person who discovers
the need for knowledge because their nature and impact and influence of others
inspire, not satisfied with the current state of affairs, although it may have
basic needs satisfied always aspires to something that is beyond feels
restlessness, anxiety, unhappiness in some way, it will be "out of
paradise" because something is missing.
While it is recognized as part of a place
and a time, while aware of the need to leave these parameters to go further,
explore, discover, conquer, grow, change, revealing aspects that are
characteristic and consequences of creativity. It belongs to a context of time
and space yet imagine and try to make other situations, a permanent attempt.
The expulsion of Eden was a painful,
traumatic event; Similarly, dissatisfaction, recognizing the limitations of
current knowledge and the need for a major effort to improve it is also painful
and traumatic, the equivalent of expulsion.
Creation is not easy, thought is not an
easy task and is assumed by few as a means of personal action, always involves
risks, penalties, costs, pain.
Therefore, as God, alone in the
vastness of time and space I could not tell whether it was God or had the power
it deserves as such, had to create the world to test this ability also had to
create a creature with the capacity to recognize him as creator.
For an artist does not help create
beautiful works of art (musical pieces, paintings sculptures, poems) if nobody
hears, nobody sees, nobody reads, and even if no one can be astonished by them
and this gesture implicitly recognizing the creation and the creator.
An artist, like God, is often too
selfish and when a rival, so skilled and capable as it arises, feels
threatened. Like God when found that the man had discovered the creative
potential, he performed the act of expulsion from paradise, but being alone was
canceled. It is best when there are several creators mutually reinforcing.
It is not sin or
offense, it's just the discovery
In the middle or dark ages of
religious thought age, the idea of original sin
was used by the Catholic religion to keep man in ignorance, vital for the
material and mental exercise control over people condition.
The insistence on the moral weight of the
so-called original sin would force people to wait and accept control by the
supposed representatives of divinity, so long did not exist the will nor the
conditions to discover their creative potential or the need to replicate the
original sin.
Original sin, which also happens
continuously, is the exercise of creativity. It may be through the word to
describe, explain or show aspects of reality in multiple ways.
Literature realizes this through
poetry and other forms. Nobody like the poet to suggest realities physically
invisible but can be possible in the imagination or in the future in material
reality. Jules Verne is a great example of artists who saw ahead worlds that
became reality in the future How many visionaries like him can suggest what not
see or know?
The artist can display colors that do not
exist in reality or present worlds, experiences, realities physically invisible
and invisible to the physical eye, but visible to the creator, artist, painter,
sculptor. It can reveal the color, chromatic harmony where there is only gray
for those who have developed the creative faculty.
The musician can discover sounds or
inaudible sound ranges in the material world, creating situations in which the
harmony, melody reflect the essence of paradise. A musician, when he creates a
haunting melody, not only goes directly to the listener's mind, but can also
cause reactions and create incentives that transform markedly listeners. It has
been shown that the body responds to certain frequencies, proving that math is
part of the universe, that there is an order, a balance, a universal melody
with which we can identify.
The establishment is also revealed
in the discovery of the mysteries of nature. The law of gravity Newton's
formula of the equivalence of mass and energy of Einstein are also works of art
such as painting, music, poetry. Maybe not appreciate them it attributes usually
found in a work of art (color, sounds, words) but the mathematical content that
reveals the order of the universe is a common element.
The world is mathematical, music has
mathematical structure, mathematics is a beautiful discipline and sublime manifestation
of human creativity, therefore the universe is beautiful, music and other
artistic creations are beautiful.
The universe is revealed, to discover the
mysteries of the atom, to create a melody, a poem, a work of art, as the
creative faculty is fully exercised, the original sin is repeated, it is
continued with the discovery of the creative capacity and progresses more. To
commit time and again the original sin, man repeatedly expelled from Paradise
and in this process, a dialectical synthesis gets closer and closer to God, the
supreme entity, the creator par excellence.
Knowledge is growing in all areas of life,
but also the realization that much remains to be discovered is opened, and the
continued anguish forces continually create. The tree of good and evil is
infinite, or rather the tree of knowledge and creation, as well as the need to
appropriate the fruits of it, that is the essence and urgency of human nature.
Conclusions
God must be calm and pleased that
the man committed the original sin, that is, because he has discovered the
creative faculty, that is not good may be the only one with the ability to do
something, to create, and pretend this state denotes a certain autism or wrong
complacency.
It is better to be accompanied by
other artists like him to stand alone, in silence, in the vastness of time and
space.
Or maybe God is not really drove the
man but to perceive the gifts he had, he has tested permanently. And man, has
proven to be great creator, what is discovered if the gains are gradually
materializing is reviewed.
In some cases, already it reaches
critical extremes equate their creator, such as genetic manipulation, but in
other cases, the wonders of the world are forever discovering; always from the
exercise of creativity without limits, cumulative and more complex.
The so-called original sin is nothing but
man's liberation from the constraints to recognize their dogmas creativity,
autonomy and the potential to achieve by his own hand, changes that would be
impossible by direct action of God, changes in the world who apparently ran out
of creativity after creating the world or because seeing his supreme work, man,
creative and capable as he decided to renounce forever and left it to their own
devices.
Man can create to improve
their world, to destroy, it is your choice, you can rebuild the paradise or
complete the path to eternal perdition, the end of the world.
