Simply put, the ways of God tell us to focus on the appropriate needs (not wants) of others. We were to act in servitude to Him and to each other in need. Man, since the Tree, became self-aware and focuses instead on self. As a result mankind prefers to take rather than give. Man, previously, would have had no desire to take more than needed in order to live for self, as the concept of self did not exist prior to the forbidden Tree.
We humans are self-serving and a mixture of self-interest, self-righteousness, self-determination, selfishness, self-justification, etc., all which are behind the woes of this world. We were told this is what makes us backwards to the original will of God for us. Our ways are opposite to the ways of the Kingdom and are what we are to repent of. With understanding comes change and a new loyalty to ways contrary to the traditional ways of mankind. We become, as the early Christians were called, 'haters of mankind', haters of the results of rebelling against the will of God. This all resulted from our unwillingness to believe that God had it all in control and as a result, we still live today like we need to continually do it our way, not His. Like Peter or Judas, we wish to reject God's plan in favour of what we would prefer. Self. Backwards.
© ...timothyu
We humans are self-serving and a mixture of self-interest, self-righteousness, self-determination, selfishness, self-justification, etc., all which are behind the woes of this world. We were told this is what makes us backwards to the original will of God for us. Our ways are opposite to the ways of the Kingdom and are what we are to repent of. With understanding comes change and a new loyalty to ways contrary to the traditional ways of mankind. We become, as the early Christians were called, 'haters of mankind', haters of the results of rebelling against the will of God. This all resulted from our unwillingness to believe that God had it all in control and as a result, we still live today like we need to continually do it our way, not His. Like Peter or Judas, we wish to reject God's plan in favour of what we would prefer. Self. Backwards.
© ...timothyu
