The Nature of God and Man

The Nature of deity and Man Utah V eachey University Abstract The reputation and relationship of divinity to domain has incessantly been forgiving temperaments more important question. As man is, divinity once was as matinee idol is, man whitethorn perish. Lorenzo Snow. I clear asked my egotism this tell apartment numerous dates. What is deitys temperament? What is mans eventidet? And kind- affectionatenessed disposition is graven enters genius t here(predicate)fore, a study of paragons spirit is at the identical time a study of benevolent disposition. I bury explain this statement and my beliefs hygienic-nigh human reputation and how it operates. The Nature of immortal and Man I wasnt nice to other(a) pack.I was always fighting, arguing, name start with the neighbors, as well as my pick upers. I steal from department stores, I lied to my pargonnts and coaches and teachers. I cheated on my homework and tests and my relationships. I hurt others in corporal altercations. I would bully my peers vocally. I manipulated wad into to doing what I valued. I used drugs and alcohol illegally, I would fetch drunk, and I disrespected my elders. I break brought embarrassment and disgrace to my family. I pick outnt always silent mans outlastence and purpose here in this flavour.I mystify come to understand that my purpose, which is part of my graven image- wedded human nature, is to sustain want theology. I have realized that genuinely slowly as the result of many mistakes and challenges. Some, possibly most(prenominal), of the encounters from my which I have intentional ab start my naturewhich is besides human naturehave been negative, but, a few have been unconditional. A negative experience from which I key outed a bully pick out was taking my first wassail of beer at a party at my brothers apartment when I was sixteen. That drink soon led to my becoming an alcoholic.One of the good choices I made, and there have only been a few, was to leave collegeincluding my athletic dreams. I returned home after my soph year at college and spoke with my mother just about well-nigh of my bad choices. I now go to court appointed counseling for the bad choices Ive made. It savours like the last 6 years of my action have been spent cleaning up the wreckage of my past. I have check offed that devising decisions that violate unfailing rules and laws that ar irrevocably decreed in promised land vex about personal annoying, anguish, and sorrow.That was true(p) for me, and Im sure its true for every matchless. I have registered from the bad experiences reported higher up that they lead to chastisement and misery. People told me that, but I had to learn it myself. I have since begun to take the necessary steps to make amends and repent of these behaviors. I have entered rehabilitation centers and have met with professionals to clean up my past and to repress those same behaviors. In other words, I have begun to listen to the immortal condition voice inside of me that has always called me to move around like divinity.I now have a better cognition of my divine purpose and a greater sensory faculty of myself through understanding the nature of God and the nature of man. And what is this saucily understanding? Gods nature is human nature. And human nature is Gods nature therefore, a study of Gods nature is simultaneously a study of human nature. Much of my new understanding is based on dickens of Christian doctrines more popular statements which I have pondered at great length. The first is from the writings of President Lorenzo Snow, As man is, paragon once was as god is, man may become. The second is that man is created in the image of god (see Doctrine and Covenants 2018). So, I am going to spend some time discussing Gods nature because (as I allow for show later) it is mans nature too. God was once as I am today, with both good and bad qualities and cha racteristics. He had flaws and character defects, but God was a man who desire good works and self improvement. I do not profess to pick out all about God in fact I sack out very little. I dont crawl in what God was like before He became God. God was somewhat like me and He figured out over time what mattered most to his emanationion and happiness.God was intelligent, patient, and meek. Although at times, he also may have been frightened, angry, and alone. God has experienced some of the same, if not all of the same emotions and feelings humans experience. God sinnedpossibly even as serviceman have sinned. God became God by overcoming all his imperfections and discovering true happiness, and God desires to keep us from making some of the same mistakes. And he substructure do that because our nature and his nature are the same. God gave us commandments to befriend us to become like him. One of the most important cause God learned was the existence of imperishable principle s.I guess that means that those eternal principles existed before God did. It was through discovering and aligning to those eternal principles that God became who God is now. He learned that these principles have consequences, and when you abide by them you receive joy, happiness, and progress. When you violate them your reward is shame, guilt, and sorrow, and you quit making progressor become worse. One of the traits of Gods nature is the ability to agitate. Having learned about eternal principles, God continually strove to upgrade himself by conforming to them and more and more realizing his potential.He continually progressed toward eventual perfection. That is called eternal progression. The regard to fall upon toward perfection is an important part of Gods nature and of human nature. God wanted to progress and was willing to render the expenditure for progress, God never gave up. He never quit bewildering, progressing, challenging himself, stretching his limitations, ac cepting jockstrap from others, receiving input and advice. God was willing to do whatever it took to overcome whatever stood in his way. God mum that it isnt where he was, but where He wanted to be that counted.Gods ability to change and His desire to progress are what eventually made him into God. God also had a body, and that body was both a boon and the source of many problems for him. It was a blessing because it seems that a spirit can only experience a limited amount, not enough to become perfect. ostensibly spirits went as far as they could go as spirits, and without a body, spirits could make no more progress. That happened to God, and so somehow he was given a body. I said above that God kept learning, and one of the things he learned was that he had to control his body.His body was designed with a very basic nature to pursue sport and avoid suffering. God learned that his body could not always pursue delight. God learned through his own experience that many corpo real experiences, including genderual gladness must(prenominal) be controlled. He learned that sex is for a man and woman. It brings pleasure into the relationship, brings the couple close at hand(predicate) together, and allows room for intimacy and growth and procreation. When this eternal principle is violated, the spirit and the body go out of harmony. both gratification which harms or interferes with others must be deferred.Any pleasure of the body which compromises eternal principals of ethics and morality must be deferred. These are examples of eternal principles which God learned about his body. God also learned that he could not always avoid disturb. How did he learn that? He learned it from the temptations, struggles, disappointments, and failures discussed earlier. God surely mat up pain he probably still feels it. We know that he weeps over lost souls. But even so he doesnt just save them besides in their lost state. God has learned that he cant, so He has also l earned to patronize the pain.God learned that the pain of hollow and securely work is a tool to strengthen us and teach us valuable lessons. God learned about the pain of loss that comes from a broken heart or the death of a shaftd one, the pain of separation from the Holy Spirit, the pain of disappointment that may stem from family aliveness and close relationships, the pain of failure from school or from a goal not accomplished. God learned that while some pain can be avoided, very often pain must be endured. God learned that it is the price he must pay for progress. Another thing which God learned or ascertained was the love of others.He discovered that joy comes from thinking about and do others. At first selfishness probably seemed best to fulfill his wishings, but God eventually discovered that self seeking didnt really meet his needs. What he discovered was that when a person guards for another person, they care for the person in return, and even if they dont care fo r the person in return, theres a feeling of joy that comes from helping them, and that seems to be another one of those eternal principles. When God discovered how to achieve joy, he immediately experienced love. He wanted to share his knowledge with others.This is like Lehi who upon degustation the fruit of the tree of life (joy), immediately sentiment to share it with others. Gods love for others became his work and his glory which is to bring to pass the eternal life of mankind. (see Moses 139). If, as President Snow observed, As man is, god once was as god is, man may become, the description of Gods nature is a description of human nature. The same eternal principles that God discovered apply as well to me and you. The principles exist and if we conform to them we get happiness, and if we dont, we get misery.At first, it didnt feel natural, not part of human nature, to conform to eternal principles. God calls our desire to resist change the natural man and the natural man has to learn to conform to those principles. globe can either learn eternal principles from God by following his commandments, or they will learn those principles the way God did, which was the hard way. I had to learn a great many of them the hard way. I was told on many occasions that the direction my life was headed would lead me to heartache. I have since discovered, the hard way, that those people were right.God shows us those eternal principles in the form of commandments. What God discovered about life he reduced to rules called commandments so simple people can persist them. If we live the commandments, we learn and live eternal principles, if we ignore the commandments we are on our own. When Abraham Maslow true his concept of self- realisation, he chanced upon one of those eternal principles mentioned above. A result of the years which God spent struggling, learning, failing, repenting, etc, was that he learned that he could only be golden when he was realizing his potenti al to be perfect.It is not an chance event that when Maslow set out to study human nature by studying how healthy adult male act, he discovered self-actualization. Every human desires to fulfill his potential, to become all he can be. Concluding that the nature of every human being, is to strive and progress to become like God. Everything Maslow said about self actualization is true. Maslow called it self-actualization I call it eternal progression. God purposefully placed each human being here on this earth to receive a body. God discovered that a tangible body is necessary in enact to have joy. But humans also need to learn to control their physical bodies.God learned that the body cannot always have pleasure and that it must endure some pain. Healthy people learn the same thing. Bodies are a great blessing if they are controlled. Humans cant have pleasures all the time they must be controlled. Controlling pleasures is not the same as denying pleasures we have to learn from God what an appropriate expression of physical pleasure is and what it isnt. God learned that you cant avoid all pain. We feel growing melodic line through emotions that are not always mute by us. There are the pains of labor from working on projects and tasks that might not be very successful.We must endure the pain of infirmity and death that may arrive without notice. These are all the types of discomforts which God understands from his own personal experience. Humans are social beings who instinctively, which means by their nature as humans, need to be with other people and to feel love in order to feel effect and complete. The importance of social needs and intimacy are greatly misunderstood. Humans needs for friendship creates humans own self image how a human is accepted by peers determines to a double degree their own view of their personal worth.I remove a good example of friendship and how it can influence others for good. I was struggling with some directional decisi ons. A friend of my brother befriended me at the topical anaesthetic gym and after many conversations, he convinced(p) me to play football with him and others. Through his friendship and mentoring I grew to better understand the need for good positive friends. Humans needs are such that social interaction and love drive us to each other. Humans need love and interaction to give them a signified of purpose, a sense of belonging, and a sense of homeostasis.Just like God, most humans learn that winsome others works better than selfishness. Humans are created in such a way that human beings need nourishment, constant stimulation through verbal and non verbal communication from other people. During infants beginning growth they need constant contact with their parents and others, giving them the opportunity to grow and begin learning. Throughout childhood and into adolescences and on to adulthood, humans need and want other humans in their life to give them a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction.Physical embraces are common in all of lifes relationships for example, in athletics high-fives and pats on the backside to primp one another for a job well done. Sporting teams huddle up before and during, as well as after games, in order to come together and experiences their physical and emotional state of being. It is customary in many cultures to embrace one another with hugs and kisses upon greeting one another. Man is as God once was, and God is as man may become. In addition, man was and is created in the image and likeness of God.Ive used these two well cognize Christian doctrines to argue that investigating Gods nature is the best way to understand human nature. I dont pretend to articulate that my ideas are Christian doctrine, but they are what I have come to believe as a result of my own personal struggles and their relationship to those two doctrines. When the day comes that I will be sitting across from others, counseling them, I hope to cut across t hem as people who are struggling, just as god may have once struggled. And it will be my job as a advocate to help them see their potential to become gods or goddesses. ? ? ?