The nature of sin and salvation

The judgment of someone else, be it god, your friends, your mother, father, brother, sister is nothing compared to the judgment you give yourself. The true nature of sin, is quite simple.

Imagine something you love the most in the entire world, take your time and really think about it, your partner, your car, or you computer? Pick something you really love in this world more than anything else. Now imagine that one day, you've gotten really drunk and forgotten who you are and in that crazed state you destroy or seriously harm that which is more precious to you. Then you go to bed and fall asleep, the next morning you wake up and your friend (not the one you harmed) is standing next to you and telling you what you just did the night before. Then it hits you that you destroyed that which was most precious to you.

There is no judgment from your friend, or at least there shouldn’t be, he might do all in his power to console you and help you get over it but the pain of what you've done is the nature of sin. You've harmed that which you cared for the most, nothing your friend could do to you would come anywhere near the pain you're already experiencing. Beating you senseless might actually make you feel better as you would feel you've been justly punished.

So yes, for some there can very possibly be hell, but we aren’t sent there to correct some injustice god perceives our actions. Sometimes we simply desire a good flogging to set things straight. All it takes for sin to be revealed is for some love to be entered into the equation. It doesn’t take punishment, it doesn’t take hate, threat or suffering for sin to be revealed, it takes only love.

The difference between sin and salvation is if you only love others you will see all the times you've hurt them and be hit with only sadness and sorrow. That is a path that will slowly spiral downwards until you can go no deeper. Salvation comes when you realize that while you've hurt others you were only a player in the divine comedia, we are all players in the divine comedia. While there is one being on this planet that suffers we are all in sin. While there is one of us in sin we are all in sin. What you do to these, my lesser brethren you do onto me. I have the power to stop the suffering and as long as i dont stop it the suffering and the blood is on my hands as well.

Yet sin is only sin as long you hold on to the thought that something has permanent form and actions can have permanent repercussions and as long as you believe that there is such a thing as less than perfect, less than holy. Salvation comes from within when you realize that non of your actions truly harmed anyone and all that happened and all that will ever happen can only happen because of love.

Salvation only comes from the acknowledgement of the love that covers all. Love that only covers the actions of others is still not the love that covers all, the divine love. Salvation comes when you truly love yourself, love the divine within, as well as the divine in others and in all. After that the only truth that you will ever know is the sinless truth, the truth that always emanates from love.