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To me the concept of Original Sin doesn't seem very intelligent. There is a creator god who wants us to be dumb?
humans have more power than understanding. we are capable of very destructive mistakes. consider a deer or a bird. they don't rely on intellect, and they go through life very gracefully. become as little children...
I'm not saying we should have been deer. but at some point we started playing God, and then all these complications on earth were inevitable.
at some point you realize that faith is more important than intellect. that is when you can begin to balance the use of both.
The idea is Adam and Eve were playing god by becoming aware of higher knowledge. Before they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were dumb as a beast.
yes. animals have a different type of consciousness to humans. their experiences tend to be very intuitive and very blissful. God knows the human path comes with hardships. and even with rebellion against God. and now that we have some of this higher knowledge, the only way back into heaven is to become 'as little children'.
and that is because faith is more fundamental than intellect. from a spiritual point of view, it is not necessary to amass knowledge. faith is allowing yourself to be a vessel for spirit, which in turn allows you to know everything you need to know, exactly when you need to know it. that is how animal consciousness operates. they play their roles perfectly, and the easiest way for humans to play ours is by striving to act as that vessel for spirit.... despite this burden of intellect that we have taken on.
But because jesus was sacrificed now it's ok to experience higher thought as long as you believe in him. The sacrifice made god change his standard. You are still a sinner but believing in jesus makes it so it is possible to get into heaven.