The Most Popular Mystery

Sin is the greatest mystery. Everyone loves mysteries but sin is particularly unique. Sin is the only mystery which nobody has ever resolved. Nobody has gone into sin and come back again satisfied. This makes the pursuit of sin all the more tempting. Sin is easy and promises satisfaction so people assume you can find satisfaction here if you just do it properly. It doesn't make sense, it isn't rational but because nobody has even done it people are ever willing to hrl themselves into the dark abyss simply because In our society mysterious always have some form of end to them, they are never entirely meaningless. They may not end happily but they are resolved somehow. Sin however is never resolved, Christians know that sin is meaninglessness. Sin is the antithesis of God so to the degree that God is purposeful and does what he does with an intent so sin, as God's opposite, is entirely purposeless and never comes to a conclusion. This makes it all the more mysterious and all the more tempting for humans who are born with a good desire to not settle for the mundane.


I think more people act in sin then in righteousness because righteousness has already been lived and found satisfying. People are not interested in doing what has already been done, the want something easy that will allow them to look and feel great without the help of anyone else. Sin happens to be easy but it is also new and individual for each person. It is "comfortable" for a time and gives a brief sense meaning which nothing else can give. You become your own master and live "free". Sin loves to promise things it can't provide. It knows exactly what each human wants and extends the mystery to that specific part of each individual. So the mystery of sin is extremely tempting because it is like no other mystery on earth. For someone to embrace the mystery they must be willing to live a double life. Which is what most people do. They can live mostly rational in what they physically do and yet they allow their minds to wander far beyond reality into realms beyond healthy curiosity, realms in which anything is possible. Where they can be good and bad, where ends justify the means, where God can create a stone he can not lift, where love is cheap and can be disregarded like clothing. Such thoughts are indeed mysterious and tempting as well yet they go beyond the realm of reality and rational into a world where God does not exist and "every man does as is right in his own eyes"


For someone to try to resolve the mystery they must bid farewell to reason and live life based on experience. Their sin will allow them to experience an adrenaline rush and for a moment they rise above the clouds and feel their soul pricked with something resembling meaning. Our culture pushes us in the direction of sin by allowing the majority of the mass media to only ever talk about the brief moment of meaning. They do not talk about the heart wrenching crunch as that meaning is torn from every sinner as they plunge back to earth left with only a vain memory of what was. The mass mediea does not talk about the broken men and woman who spend their lives regretting decisions they have made or even worse the people who live sad and depressed without ever realizing that their current feelings are the result of past decisions. We never hear the screams or cries of pain when reality hits the people who chose to pursue a promise of happiness rather then what makes sense and for those who pursue what makes sense there may not be an individual world where you get to choose what is right, but rather you will find beauty in the perfect symmetry of the world which exists.