From the many definitions, we acknowledge sin as any behavior that estrange us from God. Estrangement from God produces in us the discontent that makes us fearful, hateful, envious, angry, uncivil, unkind, and unhappy. We affirm The Ten Commandments as a foundation for behavioral standards that please God. Eve's Simple Realities help us form a symbiotic bond with our Symbiotic God. A lifestyle that does not include the essence of the Ten Commandments and Eve's Simple Realities results in a life estranged from God.
The most common and most insidious sin is the sin of excess. God's displeasure with human excess is uncompromisingly evident. Creation exacts a warning or punishment nearly every time we choose intemperate behavior over moderation and always when we prolong unrestrained behavior of any kind. The evidence is apparent in a variety of observations.
Getting drunk on too much alcohol can result in projectile vomiting and day-long hangovers. Our bodies may show evidence of allergic reactions to a favorite food when we eat too much of it. It is more common for us to store excessive body fat when we eat without restraint. Storing excessive fat punishes us by compromising the efficiency of our bodies and our sense of well-being. Creation's charge of an allergenic response to overindulgence is only one way of Creation saying enough is enough. Admittedly, eating too much isn't the only reason people develop allergies or experience weight gains. Scientists have spent professional lifetimes trying to understand the extensive sets of aberrations of our definitions of what is normal for our species. Nevertheless, we should not ignore or minimize the message Creation programmed in us to caution us about our habitual excesses.
Simple Reality 1 affirms that, as humans, our first responsibility to Creation is to give God an honorable and healthy attention. Unrestrained behavior diminishes our ability to give our Creator the attention He requires and to share Harmonious Symbiosis with Him because excesses can become obsessions. Spending too much time on our obsessions we spend too little time with God and deprive Him of the symbiotic behavior He desires from us. However, that is not all God wants us to do.
Eve's children are not created to be single-minded one-dimensional creatures. We were created with an ever evolving brain large enough and powerful enough to give our species the ability to develop both concrete and abstract complex matters. We need only to look at human pursuits in the arts and sciences to appreciate this gift from Creation. The science of mathematics, called the Queen of the Sciences by Carl Friedrich Gauss, the renowned German mathematician and scientist, is an extraordinary development of abstract and applied creations with very few flaws.
The directions of the first of The Ten commandments, however, is flawless in its clarity. God will not tolerate another god before Him. The first of Eve's Simple Realities is equally as clear, we must not ignore God. Neither the first of The Ten Commandments nor Simple Reality 1 directs us to give excessive attention to our Symbiotic god. If we give obsessive attention to God we lose sight of the other things our Creator wants us to do.
Skeptics still may see a paradoxical appendage to the concept that excesses and obsessions are insidious and chronic sins. If God will exact a penalty for all excessive behavior, why then does God want us to spend so much time with Him? We reiterate the earlier statement. that god is not pleased with excessive behavior is uncompromisingly evident. If that is true, then god does not desire obsessions of any kind--including obsessions with Him.
