8968	Forums / Main Forum / Interpersonal Communications	on: June 08, 2006, 12:44:28 PM
Perception or understanding has a lot to do with the desire in a person.  We have a desire to sin from birth, and it is natural to our understanding. Having a desire to sin brings us to choose sin because in our understanding of the object or perception of a system of beliefs we are informed in our understanding based on that bias. Sin is really the chief reason that our perception of anything is drawn from the irrational. And just because we rationally know that it is wrong to perceive something in a moral sense we still choose to do wrong in-spite of our rational abilities. So sin does have a greater effect on our perception than our thinking abilities. Yet our past experience plays an important part in how we understand these life challenges. Because we are people who have passions, and we are physical beings who have senses we collect memories that are felt deeply that have an effect on our understanding or perception. We develop habits based upon our past experiences. All of these experiences either give us pleasure or pain and so we avoid the pain and naturally are attracted to the pleasure even tho the pleasure is wrong. And that gets back to our real bad habit which is sin. We naturally in our past experience love the pleasure of sin even tho we rationally know it is wrong and so we develop habits based upon our love with the pleasure of sin. Sin really has a dominating effect on our desires. When we avoid pain we become irrational in our thinking and we teach our understanding to perceive wrong. So our struggle with sin is the number one problem with our perceiving these things and then our past experience has an effect but does not actually make desire for sin a greater desire than the desire to do good. Our past experience affects our understanding but sin is the well that tips the scales. If we think that past experience plays the major role in our perception then we pragmatic. We are actually giving more power to past experience than the power of sin in us.