November 28, 2024

It is appalling, ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd and obscene 
that God would hold everyone forever accountable
for Adam's and Eve's disobeying orders.

Perhaps it was Nestorius who said,
"No one can sin for someone else,
and no one can redeem someone else's sin."

If the writer of the Garden of Eden tale
had been wise enough to shape it
after Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son,
where the son doesn't have to earn his father's forgiveness,
the world would be a different place,
and we would be different-for-the-better people.

Revising the old tales,
with his, "You have heard it said,
but I say unto you!" style of life
was what Jesus did that was truly freeing,
calling us all to see for ourselves
the truth of what we look at,
and be fully alive in the time left for living--
rising from the dead ourselves
in order to live at last before we die.

But, the Church doesn't take that tack,
telling us that it is Jesus' death that saves us,
when it is our death to all that is shamefully 
wrong about "the old, old story" and our 
resurrection to life that never dies in the
realization of what's what and what is called for
in turning things around, 
finally, at last, seeing what we look at
and turning the light around,
in doing what should have been done ages ago,
even yet, even now, even so.