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Genesis 6: 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. 6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Understanding the recognition of corrupt or distorted human character as part of man’s fallen nature provides a clear framework for identifying the underlying causes of carnal thought processes and other unhealed emotional desires, needs, and tendencies. This insight helps us determine effective ways to address these issues. One of humanity's inherent traits, following disobedience to Jehovah and being cast out of God's paradise, is spiritual blindness and death, also known as corruption.
Death, the decaying and collapse of man's ethical moral spiritual identity and standard, became the core operating system of life outside the Garden of Eden. Adam, the first man, was not only stripped of his spiritual relationship with his creator but also lost his legitimate administrative authority and influence to govern and regulate his own life and the earth he was placed in charge.
Man lost his divine consciousness, compass and the direction of existence and became enslaved to a strange foreign system of operation governed through his fallen soul faculty.
The word of God revealed that following the fall of man in the Garden was an inherent inclination of perpetually evil desires and behavior (Genesis 6:5). This resulted in the loss of man’s capacity to express truth, justice, righteousness, love and goodness, allowing corruption to permeate both individual lives and the entire human race and creation.
Consequently, everything that man seeks, thinks, desires and does become driven by selfish ambition, which ultimately fosters all forms of destructive tendencies. Corruption became man’s identity, representing the decline and decay of human godly nature. The Sinful nature grew and thrived, becoming the very embodiment of man’s operating system; a self-centred character that only seeks to fulfill personal gratification and desires at any cost.
Those who live under the influence of the fallen Adamic nature lack the power or will to undergo self-transformation according to the word of God, except such a person undergoes the transformation of his nature from the old lifestyle, which begins with Salvation.
No individual, regardless of their willpower, kindness, or intelligence, can summon the strength to rise above the sinful nature, which is basically a deliberate conscious thought life pattern. This is why Paul advised the brethren in Rome, as outlined in Romans 12:1-3, and, by extension, all followers of Christ today, to offer [their spirit, soul, and body] themselves daily to God as a living sacrifice, which is their assigned duty of worship and service unto God.
The core message here is to bring the flesh, the carnal Adamic nature, which has become selfish in its desires, into submission to God’s will and plan for their existence. Embracing this life of joyful sacrificial submission is the key, not only to neutralizing the will and desires of the fallen human nature, but also to granting individuals access to understanding and accepting God's perfect will for every situation.
Genesis 6: 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. 6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Understanding the recognition of corrupt or distorted human character as part of man’s fallen nature provides a clear framework for identifying the underlying causes of carnal thought processes and other unhealed emotional desires, needs, and tendencies. This insight helps us determine effective ways to address these issues. One of humanity's inherent traits, following disobedience to Jehovah and being cast out of God's paradise, is spiritual blindness and death, also known as corruption.
Death, the decaying and collapse of man's ethical moral spiritual identity and standard, became the core operating system of life outside the Garden of Eden. Adam, the first man, was not only stripped of his spiritual relationship with his creator but also lost his legitimate administrative authority and influence to govern and regulate his own life and the earth he was placed in charge.
Man lost his divine consciousness, compass and the direction of existence and became enslaved to a strange foreign system of operation governed through his fallen soul faculty.
The word of God revealed that following the fall of man in the Garden was an inherent inclination of perpetually evil desires and behavior (Genesis 6:5). This resulted in the loss of man’s capacity to express truth, justice, righteousness, love and goodness, allowing corruption to permeate both individual lives and the entire human race and creation.
Consequently, everything that man seeks, thinks, desires and does become driven by selfish ambition, which ultimately fosters all forms of destructive tendencies. Corruption became man’s identity, representing the decline and decay of human godly nature. The Sinful nature grew and thrived, becoming the very embodiment of man’s operating system; a self-centred character that only seeks to fulfill personal gratification and desires at any cost.
Those who live under the influence of the fallen Adamic nature lack the power or will to undergo self-transformation according to the word of God, except such a person undergoes the transformation of his nature from the old lifestyle, which begins with Salvation.
No individual, regardless of their willpower, kindness, or intelligence, can summon the strength to rise above the sinful nature, which is basically a deliberate conscious thought life pattern. This is why Paul advised the brethren in Rome, as outlined in Romans 12:1-3, and, by extension, all followers of Christ today, to offer [their spirit, soul, and body] themselves daily to God as a living sacrifice, which is their assigned duty of worship and service unto God.
The core message here is to bring the flesh, the carnal Adamic nature, which has become selfish in its desires, into submission to God’s will and plan for their existence. Embracing this life of joyful sacrificial submission is the key, not only to neutralizing the will and desires of the fallen human nature, but also to granting individuals access to understanding and accepting God's perfect will for every situation.