Col. 1; 21-23 describes everything that anyone needs to know. The passage tells us why things are wrong. When we disobey The Operating Instructions, we are separated from The Loving Programmer. Our minds become hostile. We see that hostility in every sinner, and in every one who is similarly separated.
“Brothers and sisters:
You once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;”
The various descriptions of psychological problems, like “bi-polar”, “schizophrenic”, and “sociopath” are crude descriptions of the degree of separation from God. A growing separation is accompanied by increasing anger.
The Source of All That’s Right:
“God has now reconciled you
in the fleshly Body of Christ through his death,
to present you holy, without blemish,
and irreproachable before him,
provided that you persevere in the faith,
firmly grounded, stable,
and not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard,
which has been preached to every creature under heaven,
of which I, Paul, am a minister.”
If we are reconciled with The Program, our anger disappears, and our souls may live forever with The Loving Programmer.
