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Originally Posted by Moybin
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Well said! But it is all about the genes. We are all, at a very molecular level, slaves of our genes. Not saying we cannot be more than the sum of our parts, but all too often I see people making no attempt.
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Well said on your part too Merv. But I just can't let myself "off the hook" so to speak and use my genenic coding as justification for my wrongdoing because I'm a "slave" of my Genes. I know in my heart that I make choices, good and evil, and I beleive there's no one to blame but me when I do wrong. And when I say me, I mean my Spirit. I beleive my Brain is no more than an amazing mechanism that performs an interface function between my Spirit and my Body.
It took me along time to understand this very important point but it is confirmed to me again and again as I observe my own actions and the choices I make. I find I do not always make the best decisions, and sometimes willfully make a decisions that goes against the moral code that my belief system teaches me.
After this point I confess my sin to God and ask his mercy on me, a sinner. He then assures me of His forgiveness because of the work his Son did on the Cross on my behalf, taking the punisment for my sin...taking the judgement and sentence of death in my place.
Now you may say, oh, he does let himself "off the hook"...one could look at it that way but there is some shame and guilt that goes along with it and a sense that one is loved by a compasionate and merciful God. This mercy and grace does a work in my heart that draws me into rejecting my bad decisions in the future and forcing myself to go with the better decisions that in the end benefit me and the others around my in ways I can't begin to measure.
I hope this is making some sense because I feel very inadequate to explain it...I just know it in my heart and it makes me glad to have this God who sent his Son to die on the Cross to take the punishment I deserved so that I could be with him for eternity.