Original Sin: A God-Soul Theory

Original sin occurred when Middle East cultures ignored that life is a continuation of the environment, and instead imagined and artistically portrayed the word portrait of a first father god to be the origin of existence, and by so doing directed attention away from what animates life internally. Truth can be found in either/or explanations but is also just as often discovered midway between two alternatives. Such is the solution to the question, does a monotheistic first father god exist? The God-Soul Theory answers the conundrum by affirming yes, a first father does exist as a subjective imaginal idea in the cerebral cortex of the human brain but does not exist objectively as real and true. A first father god exists only subjectively and is therefore only half real. The God-Soul Theory advocates for a psychological view of partial-atheism. The theory asserts that a first father god is subjectively real to a sizable group of humans but the personal acceptance and belief of many is no guarantee that it is objectively real. A monotheistic god is a subjective and pre-scientific way of identifying an unknown beginning, and is an imagined artistic way of orienting to what is good and protective of humans. The first father god of monotheism is derived not from reasoning, as suggested and accepted in the past but is instead a product of artistic imagining and story, as an effort to know an unknown beginning of the environment and life. The God-Soul Theory also asserts that since a first father is an expression of human ability for artistic imagining and word art, a popular yet poorly conceived notion of a human soul cannot have been made by and has nothing to do with a human-like god. An animating soul is a continuation of the natural environment of energy and force and it is this factor that renders it resistant to destruction. The soul is a triune willing function of hunger for food and water, sex and reproduction, and aggression that enables life to survive, and is resistant to destruction.