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(James 1, 1–8; Mark 10, 11–16) With what love the Lord treated children! And who doesn’t treat them with love? The longer someone lives, the more they love children. One sees in them the freshness of life, purity and integrity of character, which one cannot help but love. Others come to the idea, looking at the innocence of childhood, to believe that there is no original sin, that everyone falls on his own when he comes of age and encounters antimoral aspirations, which, it seems to him, he is not able to overcome. Everyone falls on their own, but original sin still exists. The Apostle Paul sees in us the law of sin, “warring against the law of the mind” (Rom. 7:23). This law, like a seed, seems invisible at first, but then opens up and captivates. Thus, those born from lepers do not discover leprosy until a certain age, then it opens up and begins to consume them in the same way as their parents. Where was leprosy before time? She was hiding inside. So original sin is hidden for a while, and then it comes out and does its thing. The environment matters a lot both in suppressing this sin and in revealing it. If there were no sinful elements all around, there would be nothing for that hidden sin to feed on, and perhaps it would dry up on its own: but this is our grief, that there is always a lot around that is conducive to its nourishment. There is a lot of sin in every person and in society: but all this does not necessarily determine us to sin. Sin is always a matter of freedom: fight and you will not fall. Only those who do not want to fight fall. Why don't we want to fight? There is no rule for wanting or not wanting: I want because I want; and I don’t want to, because I don’t want to: autocracy is the original beginning; it cannot go any further. You might be interested in: