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So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

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Monday, March 28, 2005

On Sin.

'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know Good and Evil...' Genesis 3:22

Aside : Don't you think these were rather enigmatic words spoken by God? Here, the Bible doesn't cleary state to whom the one God is speaking to, and - assuming he is unique - why he should use the expression 'one of us'.

Anyway. From its very inception, the human race has been condemned to exist within two eternal division, always moving between those two opposing poles. While the former is very much a taken, it is the latter part of the sentence that I find so intriguing.

We are intruments for both Good and Evil, and it's something I found hard to resolve for years. When Good and Evil are pitted against each other, is there a fraction of a second when Good will prevail?

There's a belief that Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of individual human beings.

And yet there's another, which seperates them as two complete entities, a fight between Good and Evil raging all the time in every individual's heart, which is the battleground where they would fight inch by inch for millenias in order to gain ground, until one of them finally vanquished the other.

The duality of Man. Which is what I have come to learn in this humble life. No situation can be totally good or bad, it is always ridden with both. How perfect can one be? It is an elysium unattainable.

But, I have found some sort of a resolution when pondering upon a perennial doubt. Why did Jesus ask the traitor to commit a sin at The Last Supper?

'So that scriptures would be fulfilled,' people would tell me.

But Jesus would never do that. In truth, He was pretty much a victim, as the traitor was. Why would He ask someone to commit a sin and thus leading him into eternal damnation?

Then, it all came together.
Evil had to manifest itself and fulfil its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. If there was no betrayal, there would be no cross, no scarifice, no redemption.

Evil needed to be evinced if people were to understand the value of Good, and to finally move the hearts of people.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 10:43 AM

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