Inquiry Always Begins With Sin

"All inquiry begins in the realm of sin because we are hoping to know that which we cannot and were not created to know." (113)

Since we are created, we have limits. Think about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil within the creation story and Genesis account of Adam and Eve. This tree with pretty obvious choices was place smack dab in the center of the garden. This can be interpreted by some that at the core of our identity is this choice, either good or evil. However, within this choice we are still limited and mostly by the responses to these choices. 

Limits have negative connotations typically... but spiritually it reminds us that we need goodness. Limit is a gift of grace. 

To be modern today is to reject these limits. Especially as Millennials my generation has been told to stretch ourselves past our limits for we are able, we are entitled, and we are supposed to do so. In doing so, however, we are more prone to reject the idea of grace and choose for ourselves, on our own wills, either good or evil. 

Can you think of ways this affects our interactions and or future? 

Say we choose evil, we will be judged by it. Then, won't the next generation be more prone to seeing this an see how limits are good? Maybe not? It seems that the progression of technology is leading us to new "unbreakable" limits and we wont learn for a good while what our place is, humbled at the feet of the Creator. 

So... today, does our inquiry really begin with sin? Are we trying, maybe through technology, to know what fast business, or quick easy relationships are like, when we are supposed to be made some other way? 

Questions to ponder on.