Those that he describes as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable as God's creations, that is
they exist in a state of sin.
When faith understands itself as
existing in opposition to the
state of sin, it must give itself both to a negation of law and guilt and to a continual process of abolishing the consciousness of sin: «Come, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
sin, it must give itself both to a negation
of law and guilt and to a continual process
of abolishing the consciousness
of sin: «Come, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
sin: «Come, O thou Lamb
of God, and take away the remembrance
of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
Sin» (Jerusalem 50:24).
The basic Christian doctrine
of sin, which stressed that humanity
exists in a tragic
state of alienation from the God who created it
in his own image, is being replaced by the discovery that humanity is currently
in a
state of war with the planet which has brought it forth.