{"id":8,"date":"2005-04-10T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hugoholbling.org\/heterodoxia\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-12-02T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T04:20:02","slug":"plausible-origin-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Origin of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1352\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/rachel-weisz.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Weisz, Esquire cover\" width=\"444\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/rachel-weisz.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/rachel-weisz-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Weisz, Esquire cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The conception of sin has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babylonia\">Babylonian<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magi\">Magian<\/a> \u2013 Persian origins. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hermetic.com\/texts\/chaldean.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Chald\u00e6an<\/strong> <strong>theologians<\/strong><\/a> developed sin as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/theologoumenon\"><em>theologoumenon<\/em><\/a> idea in order to answer their 11th century BCE question of theodicy: how to reconcile divine justice with the suffering of good people. <!--more-->Sin, as a metaphysical conception, was originally Persian and has been replaced with<a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/presocratics\/\"> pre-Socratic<\/a> and biblical refined philosophical awareness. But first, an account of the Chald\u00e6an theologians\u2019 shrewd insights requires exposition.<\/p>\n<p>Being arose out of non-being. In other words, creation and creatures, gods and mortals, devolved from non-being. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moirai\"><em>Moirai<\/em><\/a> (Hellenic version of fate as absurd) reigned over the metaphysical realm of non-being, which was also the fountainhead of the young gods, as well as abstractions like freedom, creativity and ethics. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/article\/225\/\"><em>Enuma Elish <\/em><\/a>describes gods emerging two by two from a formless, watery waste, which was also considered to be divine. Prior to the existence of the gods or human beings, a sacred, raw material had existed eternally. This realm was also the origin of the spirit of man.<\/p>\n<p>There was never such thing as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ex_nihilo\"><em>ex nihilo<\/em><\/a>, creation out of nothing, in the ancient world. Our modern presumption of freedom, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/meonic\"><em>Meonic<\/em><\/a> freedom, is the fulcrum of ethics and creativity which emerges from our being, and is the inception of intelligence. Hellenistic philosophy collapsed this realm of non-being to a divine <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nous\"><em>Nous<\/em><\/a>. The Christian philosophers identified this divine <em>Nous<\/em> with their Semitic god of Jewish\/Christian\/Islamic religion. Zoroastrianism also inherited some remaining vestiges of this original conception.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Semitic mentality conceived of freedom in\u00a0three contexts: freedom from slavery, from taxes and as another term of biological desire or warfare. The notion of freedom was developed in order to justify the Semitic intuition that man was a sinful being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conception of sin has Babylonian \u2013 Magian \u2013 Persian origins. The Chald\u00e6an theologians developed sin as a theologoumenon idea in order to answer their 11th century BCE question of theodicy: how to reconcile divine justice with the suffering of good people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[102,113,213],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}