"So when our first parents disobeyed Him at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they did not introduce division into the world. What they introduced was a fragmented, inharmonious division, which is what sin always does. The division between one note and a completely different note is what makes harmony possible—but it is also what makes a discordant lack of harmony possible. We sometimes think that our first parents’ sin brought differences into the world, but what it actually did is take a world already full of glorious differences, and make them all jar and clatter against each other. The differences in themselves were good and necessary." -- Douglas Wilson, Bone of My Bones
God likes distinctions.He said so, on record, in the beginning. The differences He deliberately created were good, very good in fact. So when we speak of sin, we cannot speak of it as the agent of division. Sin takes advantage of those divisions by exaggerating them beyond their created arrangement by either bringing them too close to each other or too far away. The widening or narrowing of the divine distinctions create disharmony, just like complementary notes shifting too far away from or toward their proper stations produce discord.
Division in the not archenemy of multiplication.
God divided the world and infused creation with distinctions not to parcel it out into tiny, disconnected, disinterested factions, but to make it possible for harmonious fruitfulness and multiplication.
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