Can sin be inherited
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- By John Eagles, August 20, 2006.
This page is part of an ERW course, Divine Principle. - See also: The concept of sin reconsidered
The word 'sin' is mainly used in the field of religion. It's not a very popular word. I believe that this is mainly because religions have misused the concept very much. Most religions simply define sin as something that is done against the rules of that religion. When the concept of sin is used like that, it functions for these religions to keep control over their believers. Sin understood in that way also reinforces feelings of guilt and fear in people.
Clearly, that kind of idea about sin is not what i am proposing here. But when sin is understood in a deeper and more original way it can help us to find the way of solving psychological problems in ourselves. The overall meaning of sin as i understand it is that sin is anything done that goes against good and original ideals for man. In a deeper sense, sin means any desire, thought, feeling, plan or action that goes against the original principles of the Creator.
In religion there is sometimes spoken about inherited sin and primeval sin. Most modern people will reject the notion that sin could be inherited. But what if sin could be inherited? In that case it is necessary to understand how it does. When part of the psychological problems in people stems from inherited sins, it will be necessary to understand the process how it is inherited and how it may affect you or me.
Did you ever witness an event in that many people suddenly get wild? For example, one person says something and a little while later a whole group of people around that person believes the same thing. Sometimes evil dictators manage to get revered by almost the entire population of a country. What is behind such a process? Can we understand that just in an external way, for example as the result of a successful propaganda campaign? Though i don't want to underestimate the influence of propaganda i do believe that more is at hand here. I like to add the dimension of energy fields to our understanding of such processes.
Each deed we do, each thought we have brings forth energy. When someone uses abusive language against you, you don't just hear the words, you also feel pain in your heart and you may get depressed. There is a direct transfer of energy that has its own reality on top of the external reality of audible words. When someone loves you, you can feel the love even the other person does nothing at all. This is because love is an energy that can be expressed and felt, in words or deeds, but also just through desire and thoughts and feelings.
Love is the most powerful energy in the cosmos. Love between two people creates new beings. When love is exchanged, a great number of connected energies are exchanged as well. Love is not just love. Love has a color, a taste. One person loves in one way, another person loves in another way.
Let me take an extreme example. Suppose a child is conceived as the result of rape. There was no higher love in the heart of the rapist and there probably was a lot of frustration and even hatred in the heart of the one being raped. From that degraded love a child was conceived. All kind of energies are brought from the parents to the newly conceived child. When the child grows up in the womb, it receives love in many forms and energies of many kinds from the parents, especially from the mother, and from other people around. All these energies affect the child even before it is born. When the child is born, the process goes on. Each one of us is under the influence of energies that are brought to us from living beings around us.
I do believe that the process as i just described it is what sometimes has been called the transfer of inherited sin. Once you acknowledge the working of energies in our lives, it is logical to assume that energies that go against original cosmic principles can also be transferred, even from the moment we are conceived.
Love is an energy but it also is the major agent to pass on energies of another nature. Ideally, that love is good. But not all love we experience is connected to higher energies. Often love is connected to lower energies. When someone receives such lower energies from parents we could speak of inherited sin.
Primeval sin would refer to inherited sin that goes back to the origin of our ancestors who have sinned and who could not but pass on elements of unprincipled energy to their descendants.
The situation gets more complicated when we include the possibility of reincarnation. The principle of inheritance of sin doesn't really change though. Man has both a spiritual self and a physical self. Energies affect both the spiritual and physical aspects of existence. The principle of how lower energies pass on through love still apply, even though the situation gets much more complicated when reincarnation is involved.
'Sin' is a collection of unprincipled energies, energies that influence us to live in an unprincipled way. Such energies can be passed on from one person to another. Love is the major agent that passes on energies of all kinds.
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