Humans cannot regain dignity by themselves because disobedience created a void and evil compounds when guilt cannot be forgiven.
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Disobedience
Humans cannot regain dignity by themselves because disobedience created a void and evil compounds when guilt cannot be forgiven.
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"And man cannot regain his dignity unless, where things left emptiness, man fills a void with just a man's pleasure."
"Okay, so the problem is this. We do all this evil, and now we can't forgive ourselves, so we're stuck where we are, okay?..."
"For when your nature sings so totally within its seat, then from these dignities, just as from paradise, that nature parted."
"Okay, so we left the Garden of Eden not because we broke the law. We left the Garden of Eden because we cannot forgive..."
"...Okay. For the Americans. For the Americans, they believe that Eve's disobedience is a good thing because it's what leads to progress. It's what..."
"...this eschatology, the idea is that, the Jews disobeyed God, okay? Disobedience. And"
"...order to redeem us from our sins, the original sin of disobedience to God, way back in the Garden of Eden."
"...be evil, and the result was that they slipped into open disobedience."
"...we compensate for the first evil, for the first act of disobedience. And what Beatrice says is you can't do that because you try..."
"...that it could match the heights he made to reach through disobedience, man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself."
"...But at the same time, it is through constantly making mistakes, disobedience, fallibility, that we are able to be creative, okay?"
"...the fruit. That's the original sin. That's the first crime of disobedience against God. So by killing himself, Jesus frees humanity of the original..."
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