The correlation between figurative scars and original sin. Now, I guess original sin is metaphorised in the forbidden fruit, where the fruit, beneficial or not, was a direct instruction from God to “not eat”.

Now, I’ve been trying to cut down on some vice, how it’s classified as vice could well be a human construct or something else entirely, but that’s not the case right now.

What is the case, is that before it became a part of my life, I wouldn’t have thought about it, and now that I’m trying to get it out of my life, it’s all I can think about. It’s as though, the moment something “not from God” carves it’s way into my body, even if there’s a change of heart, the scars still remain, and they still remind.

I suppose all of us walk around with some form of scars, that will always be there unless they truly disappear, and cannot remind us of our mistake, folly, or simple unfortunate circumstance. And I suppose that when Christians talk about the transformed life, they also mean that the scarring has disappeared, and they are free to live life as God had intended.

But the reality, is that Christianity isn’t miracle cream.. though it could be. But more often than not, everything seems to need some sort of effort, and now I’m really wondering if effort gets rid of scars, or if it is that miracle cream that we need to make those scars disappear. So maybe that’s another scar right there, that the need to constantly better myself, is rooted in some scar, that I will ultimately have to keep scratching because it constantly itches.

I don’t think it’s as binary and simplistic as I’ve described, but I think the human condition is riddled with battle scars that we’ve obtained while fighting through life, I think we all have them. Even if we believe we’ve led a righteous life, we still have that “original sin” that’s sort of like a birthmark / scar we’re born with.

And maybe that’s why we all need some sort of divine intervention / miracle cream.. if we are to be unblemished. If that is what we’re called to be.