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I try to imagine what sort of culture would a completely sinful world take on. We can imagine Sodom and Gormorrah and the idol worship during the time of Isreals wilderness.We do have a clue when we are told: Genesis 6 5 "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Perhaps most would agree that we can use our imagination for good and for evil. Imagination is a powerful tool that can be harnessed for both positive and negative purposes. It's the source of creativity, innovation, and empathy, but it can also lead to harmful ideologies and actions. Here’s how it can play out:
For Good:
- Innovation and Problem-Solving: Imagination fuels scientific discoveries, technological advancements, and creative solutions to complex problems.
- Art and Literature: It brings beauty and meaning into the world through art, literature, music, and other forms of creative expression.
- Empathy and Understanding: It helps us put ourselves in others' shoes, fostering compassion, empathy, and social progress.
For Evil:
Ultimately, how we choose to use our imagination is up to us. We have the ability to direct it towards constructive and positive endeavors, creating a better world for ourselves and others.
- Deceptive Schemes: Imagination can be used to devise harmful plans, frauds, and manipulations.
- Negative Ideologies: It can create and propagate harmful ideologies or destructive behaviors.
- Fear and Paranoia: It can fuel unfounded fears and anxieties, leading to negative mental and emotional states.
But I think there was a time when all the white noise of more modern society was absent and we had these hunter gatherers becoming encultured and the dominant culture was around belief. Everything was about mystical beliefs. If you notice these early cultures were centered around temples and paganistic beliefs.
You could imagine the stars were easily seen without the glare of modern times and this caused people to believe that the stars, moon, sun, and nature were like gods, messages from the gods. But along with that were the paganistic beliefs and ceremonies and perhaps even sacrifices that caused them to build their own gods and so everything they did was focused on anti God beliefs.
Not necessarily going around raping and pillaging or having sex dens and all that. But human nature had become a cult in itself where all attention, thinking, beliefs and behaviour was geared against god in a spiritaul sense. Which really is what is the basis for modern day rejection of the one true God in that its really a spiritual battle and sin is the consequence of an anti God spirit.
So it may be that humans had developed to a point of having such cult like beliefs that opposed God that this is what it means that every attention was about sin. They had developed their beliefs to a point where they became godlike themselves and had to be cut back down and humanity reset.
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