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I was born with a sinful nature. I am naturally prone to sin. That is the way I am made. If I sin, therefore, it is natural. I do not choose to sin from a neutral position. There is a natural force built into me as a system. Therefore, how can I be blamed if I sin? Why am I guilty of what I have been naturally constructed to do?
Is there a misunderstanding of the word 'guilt'? Of course, the effect of sin is death. But it is not my fault that I will die. I think the words 'guilt' and 'wages' have had a certain spin placed upon them by partisan translators to make the message conform to the will of their political masters.
I have no problem with the notion of the human life-form being a physical analogue of the god life-form. However, I do have a problem with the idea of the human family being a physical analogue of the god-family.
God the Father plus God the Son do not form a reasonable spiritual antitype of the Father + Mother + Child structure of the natural human family. There is no God the Mother. The human Mary cannot be the hyperphysical version of a human mother because she was herself entirely human.
Some postulate a Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost as a third person of the god-spices. But it is not a counterpart of a human mother. In any case, I cannot see the idea of the holy spirit as a person as being consistent with the text. As I read the text, it seems clear that the holy spirit is the god-species counterpart - or the higher reality version - of what imparts consciousness to the human brain.
A fit human being possesses the mental faculty that enables him truly to assert "I think, therefore I am". Most, but not all, human beings possess the mental faculty that enables them further to see things from the points of view of others as different from their own. Nevertheless, their core motive is still self-centred. Each uses his ability to see the point of view of others simply as a tool to better achieve his own ends.
From what I gather from the text, a human can receive this holy spirit. It gives him access to an external power which can extend his conscious perception and change his motivation to love his neighbour as himself - to remain an individual, but to perceive and strive for the good of all. But, while he is a physical human being, this holy spirit is still a passive external influence. He can choose to follow or ignore what it gives him the power to see.
The holy spirit is therefore not a god-person. It is the hyper-consciousness possessed by the god-species. This leaves the anomaly of the existence of two separate genders having no apparent counterpart in the higher reality.
If you have any ideas on this, please email me.