Ep. 3 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Continuous Cosmos and Modern World Grammar

The axial revolution, manifested in Judea, led to the development of a religion that presents time as a form of cosmic history. As a narrative with an open feature. In which you participate alongside God in the realization of that ideal.

This progress is charged actualized through faith in this linear version of time. This idea was groundbreaking: it looked at the time as an infinite progression, rather than the circular time of the shaman traditions (Hindus are another example).

Today we look at the early Jewish faith as a "belief in silly things". But that misses the mark, as it focuses on the supernatural part of the narrative.

Faith was a sense of progression, at an individual level but more importantly at a macro level. Faith allowed a person to guide himself towards an ideal, it gave meaning to his existence. A path to the promised land. Sin, in this regard, means a deviation from that path.