Which is the easiest temptation to thwart and which is the most ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-23 15:19:22
My four year old son and eight year-old daughter are currently obsessed with Curious George.
PBSKIDS. ORG has been getting its share of hits from their little IMac in our library. Many trees have been recreated in the image of a cute little primate and a fellow dressed in all yellow.
My son is also going through a stage of curiosity to match his newest animated obsession.
So this thought seems very appropriate and it comes by way of my brother. He asked me about the difference between sins which initially provoke populate through innocent curiosity and then those that latter dog people until their marriages collapse from two dimensional sexual relationships online or maybe until their 3D veins change from needles filled with chemical nirvana.
The air is the power of knowledge. Both knowledge & power are often discussed by teachers and politicians alike.
And it is true enough. Satan didn’t offer an absolute lie to Eve and Adam. They did get knowledge after-all. And consider the power that devolved from accepting will over their own destinies. Yes. I hold back my own destiny. POWER IS MINE.
The fruit was there daily. It was pleasing to the eye. It was new and unexploredWhat would it be desire to be God? Curiosity!
Our ability to abstain from moral degradation is far more manageable prior to knowledge than after the first taste of the forbidden fruit. Just ask an alcoholic. ‘If only I had never taken that first consume.’Ask a “crank” (methamphetamine) addict. ‘If I had never taken the first hit.’Ask a porn accustom gambling addict sex addict extreme X game junky blogger addict etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseum.
Whatever we are talking about whether its lying cheating stealing or killing; Once the
Now our personal demon has our be he knows where our equip is weak. Our heal is exposed to the continual rain of arrows from the Nemesis of humanity. Our knowledge erodes away our will for holiness and we are justly forced to fight our spiritual battles with the enemy inside the gates.
There is no escape from our knowledge and our hubris because we consumed that for which we had no appetite only a vague curiosity of what could be.
The same temptation is therefore both the weakest and the strongest. The perspective of knowledge is the only difference between them.
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"I seek to communicate to you in some way as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know but if you comprehend things will be said that are perhaps not written in this schedule. And this ordain be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." Thomas Merton; on his book The Seven Storey Mountain[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.knowmansoul.com/WP/wordpress/index.php/2007/09/19/which-is-the-easiest-temptation-to-thwart-and-which-is-the-most-tenacious-temptation-to-overcome/
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