First of all, "feigning" is another word for "faking," so this basically says "Faking Innocence."
Second of all, and lastly, it sounds cool. The end.
And in other news, it's got a little something to do with the human race, I guess. Ever since the beginning we have been faking our innocence. You got Adam trying to declare his innocence from eating the forbidden fruit. Genesis 13:12 "The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
Ever since then we have been trying our best to deflect the blame for things that went wrong onto someone or something else. We hate being told that we did something wrong, we hate being caught doing something wrong, so we try our best to say that we didn't do anything wrong or we try to blame someone else. We try to be innocent even when we are guilty. We fake our innocence all the time so that a) we don't have to admit we were wrong, b) so that others see us better than they would if they saw us doing wrong, or c) so that we don't have to try and correct what is wrong in our lives, because life is easier when we don't have to change.
Basically I hate that. We shouldn't fake our innocence, we should learn from our mistakes and try and fix them so that we can live better lives that are more glorifying to God. There is a popular saying that seems relevant, "Learn from the mistakes of others because there is not enough time to make them all yourselves." And if we don't own up to our mistakes, then others can't learn from them. But more importantly, if we don't own up to our mistakes then we can't learn from them either.
We are not innocent, we are guilty.
Another reason this is called feigning innocence is because I feigned innocence for a long time. I couldn't admit to anyone, not even myself, that I was not innocent. Slowly, I realized that there was no way I could fix my life if I didn't admit that I was doing wrong. So I did admit I was doing wrong, but only to myself. Then I started realizing that if I didn't stop feigning my innocence to those around me then I wouldn't be able to overcome it. So I stopped acting like I was a perfect little church-kid, I sought out help. And now I admit my mistakes often, it's kinda like confession to a catholic priest, except I do it to trusted friends who can help me through life, not some random priest guy behind some screened thing. I am trying to stop feigning innocence because it gets me nowhere. I want others to stop feigning their innocence as well, because you get a new feeling of liberation when you admit your mistakes. So stop.
We are not innocent, we are guilty.
The great news, the reason that we can admit our mistakes, is that we are justified through Christ. We are guilty, but He was innocent and bore our sins so that we can be free from them, if we only admit them and ask for forgiveness.
That is why we should not feign innocence.
And it sounds cool.
In this song it says, "We are monsters on our own, banded together we'll overcome." As long as we keep acting like we are innocent, by ourselves, we are monsters. But once we admit our guilt we can overcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys74yq7mUi0
Those are some reasons why this blog is called that.
I will explain the other things in this blog later. Gotta leave something for people to come back for... Ha.
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