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Fallen Nature 타락성본성

Selfish Desires and Fallen Nature

• ¶ 56We have fallen nature. What are the four aspects of fallen nature? They are arrogance, jealousy, anger, and lying. We should remove all of them. (150…
• ¶ 66An example of this characteristic of the fallen nature is when a courtier feels jealous of the king’s favorite instead of sincerely respecting him as…
• ¶ 73We now know the characteristics of fallen nature: The Fall began, first with self-centered ownership; next, speaking lies; next, an immoral relationship; next, taking all…

The Primary Characteristics of the Fallen Nature

• ¶ 7The primary characteristics of the fallen nature can be divided broadly into four types. The first is failing to take God’s standpoint. A principal cause…
• ¶ 3The fundamental motivation that engendered these primary characteristics of the fallen nature lay in the envy the Archangel felt toward Adam, the beloved of God. How…
• ¶ 11…Adam to fall. The proclivity of evil people to entangle others in an expanding web of crime stems from this primary characteristic of the fallen nature.

Let Us Avoid Being Punished for Our Sins by Restoring the Original Nature of Goodness

• ¶ 47We can reside with God when our fallen nature is restored to our original nature. Then, we will be qualified to be His representatives. All the…

The Deep Desire Of Our Original Nature

• ¶ 211…always a conflict between man's true nature and his fallen nature, but you know that the deepest desire of your original nature is for God…

The Providence of Restoration in Abraham’s Family

• ¶ 73However, before Esau and Jacob could fulfill the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature and make the substantial offering, Jacob first had to fulfill the…
• ¶ 70…of Abel and Cain. They would have been responsible to fulfill the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature which Cain and Abel did not accomplish.
• ¶ 78…Abel’s offering. Accordingly, for Jacob and Esau to fulfill the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature, Esau needed to love Jacob, respect him as…

Our Pride

• ¶ 61That is just another side of fallen nature. However, to come to Belvedere, you have to try getting up several hours earlier. Coming such a long…

The Model Courses for Bringing Satan to Submission

• ¶ 16(2) Since our fallen nature was acquired when Satan defiled our flesh and spirit, Jacob had to fulfill a comparable condition to remove it. For this…
• ¶ 1…of substance. He secured the position of Abel and labored to bring Satan to submission and fulfill the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature. Jacob…
• ¶ 17…fulfilled the worldwide indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature. By then devotedly attending to Jesus as the Messiah, they were to restore their original nature.

New Family Given By God

• ¶ 2…as a descendant of the fall. You have an awareness of fallen nature and of being part of a fallen generation, but other people don't…

The Reality Of Satan

• ¶ 2…more and more Christians have attempted to describe original sin and the fallen nature of mankind without reference to the work of a personal demonic power…
• ¶ 3…Brunner, Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Teilhard de Chardin, or the in and the fallen nature of mankind without reference to the work of a personal demonic power.

Our Family and the Dispensation

• ¶ 313Through test after test, we must drain ourselves of all fallen nature and be filled with God's gold. We cannot achieve this by going into…
• ¶ 3…the family, a clan is created, which is burdened by the same fallen nature, and it is further surrounded by the nation and the world. In…

Habituality 습관성

Original Sin

My Final Words For Humankind

• ¶ 5…eras were transitional. There were courses of preparation necessary to enter the era in which people could rid themselves of their fallen nature, return to their…

Jacob and Esau

• ¶ 37In this way, Jacob and Esau set the condition to remove the fallen nature of Lucifer, who could not accept the younger Adam as God's…
• ¶ 2…Isaac winning Ishmael's heart and Ishmael subordinating himself to Isaac, thus overcoming the fallen nature of the Archangel, who should have subordinated himself to Adam.

Adam's Family

• ¶ 24…Abel. While Cain had the responsibility of setting up the conditions to remove his fallen nature, Abel and Cain needed to work together to establish the…
• ¶ 23…for Lucifer's act. Had he been successful, he would have set a condition to remove his fallen nature and be restored to God's side.
• ¶ 6…and good, respectively. After they had grown, Cain and Abel were to bring sacrifices to God from opposing positions, representing Adam's original and fallen natures.

The Providence of Restoration in Adam’s Family

• ¶ 25Had Cain fulfilled the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature, God would have gladly accepted his sacrifice. The foundation of substance would then have been…
• ¶ 29This was the cause of the second primary characteristic of the fallen nature: leaving one’s proper position. To remove this characteristic of the fallen nature…
• ¶ 49The substantial offering means fulfilling the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature. This is essential for the actual restoration of human beings. The substantial offering…

Diverse Interpretations Of Sin

• ¶ 6If sin refers to man's fallen nature, this is contrasted with man's original nature and his redeemed nature. Or if sin means infidelity, then…
• ¶ 3Secondly, sinfulness has been explained by Paul and Augustine as man's common fallen nature. We sin because we are the concupiscent children of rebellious Adam…
• ¶ 12…in the church's teaching about original sin, total depravity, and fallen nature because these notions are based upon ancient Hebrew legends about Adam and Eve.

Please Allow Us to Become One with Your Mind

• ¶ 1…sorrowful mind is in our minds. Our original minds recognize this, and only the fallen nature, which is centered on itself, is denying that this is…

Conscience 양심