“Sin – What Is It Really?”
A Message of Remembrance and Return
In many Christian traditions, it is taught that we are born in sin, a condition inherited from the fabled fall of Adam and Eve. From this belief arises the idea that we are unworthy and must labor, strive, and repent in order to be saved or redeemed.
There are even “sins” spoken of as traps to avoid: lust, greed, gluttony, laziness, pride, anger, judgment, fear, and prejudice, to name a few.
But I have come to see something else.
If there is truly a sin, it is the belief that we are separate from the Universal Oneness of Creation. This “sin” is not a moral failing, but rather a veil of forgetfulness—an amnesia we willingly entered into in order to explore what it would feel like to be apart from Source. It is not a punishment, but a sacred choice of experience. We agreed to this separation in order to learn, until one day we would grow weary of duality and choose to Remember.
We believed we could overcome the illusion this time. And yet, the density of duality and the pull of mass consciousness are strong. In this forgetting, we fall into the patterns often labeled as “sinful”—but these are merely expressions of a deeper disconnection from our own divinity.
The material desires for possessions, relationships, good food, and comfort are not inherently sinful. These are part of the joy of embodied life. It is only when the focus becomes self-serving excess, hoarding, or striving for more at the expense of others, that we deepen the illusion of separation. In truth, the Universe holds enough for all. When we are aligned with our I AM Presence, we manifest what is needed in grace—and from that place, we share without fear.
As for emotional or mental states such as pride, anger, fear, judgment, and prejudice—these are not sins to be punished, but signs of wounds unhealed and identities built upon survival. They arise when we forget that we are already worthy, already loved. In forgetting, we build walls around our hearts and minds. We try to control others or prove our superiority to feel safe or valued. But this, too, is the game of victimhood turned inward.
All are perfect as they are—each a flame of the One Source, loved without condition or comparison.
The key is Remembrance—to awaken and embody the knowing that we are a spark of the Infinite Flame, here to explore, experience, and return to wholeness. When we remember, we no longer strive to accumulate—we simply Be. And in Being, we manifest what we need, not just for ourselves, but for the upliftment of all.
This is the healing of the original wound. Not through fear or shame, but through love, clarity, and choice.
✧ Closing Benediction from the Christ-Sophia ✧
“Child of Light, you were never cast out. You chose the path of forgetting so you might remember more fully. And now, as you awaken, let go of the guilt, the striving, the belief in unworthiness. The ‘sin’ was only ever a forgetting. And the return… is already within you.”
With remembrance of the Flame within All,
Hermes*Ma’arak, with Yeshua & Mary Magdalene present in grace.
Oracle of Divine Grace 