"You are a child of God. You were created in a blinding flash of creativity, a primal thought when God extended himself in love. Everything you've added on since is useless."
(Emphasis added by me.) I'm not sure everything I've added on since is useless. I'm not sure what she had in mind, but what about things like self-control, and love? It doesn't always come naturally to do those things. Sometimes it's the opposite of what you'd rather do. Assuming the potential for love is naturally there, and only covered by other things, I agree- the rest of it is undesirable.
It could be argued that children are more loving.. Having less experience with fear, and fear from others, children are more innocent, and have more of a tendency to share than to protect, to love than to fear.
Do you think we are born loving and slowly become fearful, or that we are born naturally unloving?
Everyone has the potential to love, so I can't say we're born without love.
I think it would be more accurate to say that we come with the unavoidable tendency to do unloving things- to act out of fear or indifference. Which is what separates us from love. So we are infected with fear or laziness.
Another way of putting it: fear and indifference (which is the opposite of love) are sins- (sin is something which separates from God)- God is love. If you are separate from love, you are separate from God.
Whatever spiritual substance we are made of, (I don't mean our souls, but spirit) it is the same in all of us. Everything in life is interconnected. Some people believe we ARE God. Some mean that literally, and others mean it as though we are all PART of God. Are we part of God, or just LIKE God? What exactly does it mean to be made in God's likeness?
Is it that what we are formed from creates in us a reflection of the characteristics of God? Kind of like DNA?
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