The heart of the problem

¶We all know that at times our own human ‘mind’ can have a mixture of both good and bad thoughts, often conflicting with each other. 

Sometimes, we have some lovely kind thoughts, and in the very next moment we can have awfully dark and terrible thoughts; producing both good and bad moods. 

However, our MIND is not the real problem.

The real problem is our NATURE.

In that, we are all born with the human nature; and that nature is what is at the heart of all our human woes. 

That is why, from the time when we were little children, we can naturally make it okay (from within ourselves) to: 

1. Be angry, or nasty and hurtful, to anyone (even to those people in our lives who hold a genuine love and care for us); 

2. Or, cleverly use our niceness and loving kindness to gain other people’s favour and reward (often from people we don’t like, or have no intention of liking). 

All of which proves us humans to be intrinsically evil by nature.


¶However, because our nature is so delightful, it is almost impossible for us to even think of it as being evil in any significant way. Especially, when there are so many people who are so much worse than us, in so many different ways.

But most of all, whenever we do things that delight or excite our nature; it makes us feel so wonderful and happy.

However, when we observe the human nature operating in our enemies, it is almost impossible to see it as being anything other than totally evil.  Most notably, when our enemies are being very mean or intentionally hurtful to us (or our friends) without any remorse, in ways that delight their nature; then we can more easily recognise the human nature as being truly evil. 

Using an obvious example: World War II was a conflict that resulted in more than 55 million ‘civilian’ deaths, comprising innocent: men, women and little children . . . 

Halfway through that war, if you were to ask the people in the United Kingdom, who do they think are evil; they would most likely say the Germans and their axis of evil.  Conversely, if the same question was posed to the German people at that time, they would most likely say the British and their evil alliance. 

...All the while, both sides were burying their dead; whilst at the same time they were both blessing their soldiers in their daredevil missions (involving guns and bombs being used to destroy the evil foe on the opposing side) often in the name of the same: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; within the same denomination.  When in fact (throughout the ages) God is not the originator of any such evil horrors in our world; they are all products of our common human nature, which we were all born with. 


¶Human cruelty, and self-abuse, along with all the other common woes of humanity, which take place in the: homes, families, villages, cities and countries of our everyday world; are all likewise products of human nature.

And life suggests that our nature plays a part in all that we do . . . 

Hence, the age-old question that we ask deep inside ourselves (especially, after being our worst) is: “How do I change this in my own life, so that I don’t naturally do any such things to other people anymore?” 

Or in other words:
How do I get a new nature? 
And, what is that?