I honor your choice to believe in original sin, but I do not, because I believe we are made in his image, which is perfected, we just don’t know that to be true. I reference many different teachings, not just the Bible as I choose a unique spiritual path and I see spiritual teachings, including the Bible as metaphors, rather than literal meanings. Although I recognize some people take the meanings literally, which is a choice.

The word dominion is the mistranslation I am referring to, from Aramaic to Greek to English. Dominion was used by those in power used to justify taking whatever we want from whoever we want and that is not at all a spiritual teaching, it is a human, ego-based interpretation…