Oh, O.K., the pun in the title is weak, but the topic is strong. Alignment. There are many ways we use the word alignment. I just took my car to be aligned. My back is out of alignment, and it's killing me. I must be in alignment with my source to manifest my desires. Alignment is used for cars,backs spirits and more, but it means the same thing in every example. It's making whatever is crooked straight. So it is a straightforward topic.
I think when I learned about sin growing up in Sunday school, I was learning about alignment. I remember hearing different teachers and preachers explain that the original meaning of sin was "aligned" with the definition of missing the mark. I even remember someone teaching the analogy of how the arrow was shot at a target, and the Greek or Hebrew word (which, I don't remember) used for missing the target was the word we use for sin. I am not stating any sources, just memories. If you have anything further to add to or subtract from my explanation, I gladly welcome the comments. That definition, missing the mark, sounds to me as if it's about alignment. I wonder why so many of us got hung up on the down side of sin instead of the up side of alignment? I heard far more about sin growing up than alignment. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it takes several positive comments to undue one negative. They talked about sin so much in the old testament, it's taking us centuries to get to the positive conversation of alignment. The disciples did a great job beginning to pivot the conversation in the New Testament. At the pace established in the Bible, by January 2, 2010, we should be moving into far more discussion about alignment than sin, but it seems I see many people who try to do that being chastised by extreme religious conservatives. I believe the message of alignment sadly continues to get lost in sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4
Peace.
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