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When everything belongs - an alternate wondering about sin

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 When everything belongs - an alternate wondering about sin What does it mean for "everything to belong," that every-thing has a place with God, that every-thing is God's and that there is no-thing apart from God? What does it mean for everything in creation to be made "good?" And what is up with sin and "evil?" I need to read Richard Rohr's latest book on that and maybe then these musings would have more clarity. But until then... What if everything were about the resistance, the forces of push and pull? Can energy be created without the friction of opposing forces? What if none of all this existence is "bad" or "good" but it is in thinking, and action, that makes it so? It seems as though the "knowledge" of good and evil is the root of the problem. But maybe it's that this knowledge seems to be synonymous with "judgement" - the pronouncement between good and evil. Sin, correctly translated,