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Something that took me time to understand is the concept of sin as a whole. Remember that it isn’t “just” personal sin. We all, even infants, have missed the mark of the original intent of God. Like we mentioned earlier, even the Theotokos was impacted by ancestral sin. Note that this interpretation still doesn’t match the understanding of the non-personal guilt of the original sin in the Western church). Both any personal sins and the curse of ancestral sins need to be washed away. Sin isn’t just the western understanding of sin (at least what I learned about in my old church). It is all of what no longer matches that perfect design of God. It is everything that “misses the mark”. Jesus even saves the “cosmos”, the world, from the corruption of sin. Does that make sense?
I'll keep working on it. Getting out of the Western way of thinking is sort of like learning algebra for the first time.
Thank you.
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