Telling a man not to sin because sin is an offence to the avenging God of theologies preached in the churches do not turn him away from evil, because that God, for him, shows itself to be a distant, absent, transcendent, an alien entity to this man - especially if he comes to know in reality that God cannot be “offended” or hurt - and that this God had been dead for many millennia, from so many “offences” received daily, and if there are other inhabited worlds by conscious and free beings who can also sin, God, should lead a highly troubled and unhappy life under the weight of so many blows.
Only man who has attained the true conception of God, the knowledge of himself and soul as a grand cosmic unity - the Infinite of divinity revealed in finite man – only him alone has a sufficiently powerful motive not to offend God, because only then can he avoid offending himself, his divine soul, degrading his personality, worthy of immense respect for being “a partaker of the divine nature.”
To suggest to man the contempt for himself is to open the door to self-degradation; for if he considers himself evil by nature, it will not matter to him that he descends a few steps further down the scale of his wickedness. The conviction of being evil is the prelude to being worse, and this prelude is the eve of being bad. Being bad is the logical conclusion of a pessimistic premise. But if the sinner knows that although he is dynamically evil, he is potentially good and that this profound potential goodness can blossom into vast dynamic goodness, then he has all the tools in his hand to find a way out of the dark habit of evildoing, towards the glare of the light of ever greater and more radiant kindness.
If Mary Magdalene, often quoted in the Gospel and mislabeled maliciously by the church as the “public sinner possessed of seven demons,” had not believed in her latent purity, nor could Jesus himself have been able to purify her because any syntony or approximation would be missing, i.e., the identity between him and her.
Every man who knows the truth - the “liberating truth” - firmly believes in the redeeming Christ, but also knows with the same certainty, as Paul of Tarsus, that “the Christ lives in him” and that this inner Christ, though still dormant at the bottom of the boat stirred by the storms of life, it can wake up in this man, rise up sovereign and command the raging winds and raging seas - and a great bonanza will be made in this man's soul because the Christ who was dormant in him has awakened.
The day will come when, despite the positive but melancholy view of some, Christendom will enter a new phase of comprehending the genuine and integral Christianity.
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