“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The poor were obviously sinful. [...]

[...] Many dictatorial religions pointedly refuse to allow their congregations to indulge in any type of play at all, and frown upon it as sinful. [...]

[...] He hated the Jews, but somehow he was obsessed with the idea that Moses was more powerful than Allah, and for years this was the secret sin upon his conscience. [...]

[...] Quite simply, Ruburt finds carpeting sinful if it is expensive, unless it is in the living room, where he might accept it. [...]

[...] Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

[...] If he thinks he must pay for his sins now, then that belief will attract memory of those lives that will reinforce it; this will be highly organized recall, leaving out everything that does not apply.

(9:40.) You have built up the idea of free time being wrong, sinful, no matter what you tell yourself about wanting more of it. [...]

[...] It saw a good God, a just savior, who nevertheless never thought twice about sending down death and destruction as punishment for sin. [...]

[...] Tonight, I told her, Seth said nothing at all about what I regard as the central point of conflict—the conflict between her Sinful Self, so-called, and the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] He fled from the knowledge of this for the rest of his life, believing it sinful.

The concept of original sin was a very poor, limited and distorted one, but at least along with it went rather simple procedures: Through baptism you might be saved, or through certain words or sacraments or rituals redemption could be found. [...]

For example: It may seem silly to you that you ever believed in, say, original sin. [...]

They scorned all decoration, and considered art sinful. [...]

The pointer replied: ASIA WAS WHERE YOU SAW HIM, THOUGH HE WAS IN MANY OTHER PLACES, TRAVELING IN HIS MIDDLE YEARS, DOING PENANCE FOR HIS SINS ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS OF THE AGE.

(Long pause.) All of the ideas of the Sinful Self had been in abeyance—(10:00. [...]

[...] Therefore to be proud of oneself seems a sin, and in that frame of reference true affirmation of the self is impossible. [...]

[...] If Christendom saw man as blighted by original sin, Darwinian and Freudian views see him as part of a flawed species in which individual life rests precariously, ever at the beck and call of the species’ needs, and with survival as the prime goal — a survival, however, without meaning. [...]

([Gert:] “And I think my question is now, if l go back to teach little children the Catholic concepts of mortal sin, hell, etc.”)

[...] The wrong way, and I do not mean even wrong in the sense of sinful, the wrong way is never the practical way, Philip. [...]

The sense of original sin, however, which unfortunately has been made so much of, is undoubtedly in part an inner recognition of debts of this sort, hanging over the personality at birth. [...]