Our true nature?

Question

If you believe that the meaning of life is to become good in nature, then if you really was; why does life it's self have to r****d your ability to establish your self being it?

Does God want us to do good or not?

Answer 1

I believe that God wants us to be good to each other and let that philosophy guide our every action.

Answer 2

God is good and he wants us to be ood like him.

Answer 3

I assume that English is your second language.  You're doing well!  Most humans are naturally good in nature.  Good is destroyed by greed.  Some people, only a few, relatively, are born less good.  These people go on to be our leaders.  Humans are driven to do bad things by those that lead, mostly.

Answer 4

I guess I kind of look at it from a more dry approach.  We're really here, like any other animal, to just survive and make more of us, and the way we go about doing that is specific to the human race.

Good is a definition, a concept.  Just like bad.  Rarely does anything in the outside world exactly match an idea in our heads.  And our nature is no exception.  We are a mixed bag of good, evil, indifferent, caring, selfish, selfless and so on.  And it seems like we balance and mix these different attitudes and bahaviors to form a complete human being.

But then, again, it's a bit arrogant for me to state the purpose of it all, like we're just here to survive, like I just talked to Jesus on the phone and that's what he told me.  It's just one man's belief.

Answer 5

Jim the Fee, responding

The trend in the answers that I looked at seemed to favor the idea the God inspired the "good" side in we humans and something anti-god inspired the "bad' side in us.  I find that

the god concept has nothing to do with most of the good and the bad that we find in human beings.

What is called "good" in one society is considered "bad" by another society.

It is the constant battle between what is being defined as

good by a social group (a society if you will) and what is being defined as bad.

A prime example of what I am "laying out" here is the

concept that Adolph Hitler and the n**i's in Germany

were evil and were so called by the people in the societies

of America, Britain, France, and Russia.  The great war was fought and the "good guys won" and the "evil guys lost"

and some really horrendous things were brought to light about how really "bad" the Germans, and the Japanese

had been in terms of treatment of fellow human beings.

Now, had that end result been the the Axis powers had won

what would be considered "bad" and what would be  considered "good" by those victor's??  Ah! there's the rub!!

what is good and what is bad is defined by the particular

society into which you are born.  You are taught the differences between good and bad by your family, you schools, your experiences  - and it is all decided by the particular society into which you are born.

Now, you can relearn the differences if you live for a long time

in a different society.  In fact, if you get transfered for some reason into a different society when you are very young you

will learn what is good and what it bad from the new society.

You will forget what you were just beginning to learn was good and bad and learn anew what is good and bad in the new society of which you become a part.  Then how do you

explain the aberrant personality that will continue to practice bad things and pay the penalty for it by being put in prison?

Or executed?  How do you explain Hannible Lechter, Bundy,

the Unibomber (who came from Kalispell, MT and became a

really bad killer).  How do you explain the rules breakers among us?  Is there a "bad seed" in some people that arises when society tries to teach them what is good and what is bad and they just cleave to the bad!?!

Well, the philosphers and psychologists and interrogators

have all tried to anwer that question and they mostly come up with the same answer there is just a "bad seed"in some of us that cannot be explained unless there is a God and there is a Devil and these beings are in constant battle

for our "souls"  and that may bring us full circle -- we don't have an answer, at least not yet, as to what God wants of us??

and that is all I have to say about that.

Cheers

Jim the Fee

Answer 6

You obviously believe in God a fact that I query often.

Life requires us to be good but there is a lot of evil out there.

So just carry on being good.

Answer 7

Does the yeast comprehend the baker,

or his purpose?

Answer 8

Our true nature is to learn and strive.  As we do so, we find that taking the high road and being good in nature serves us well - people like us, they want to help us, they respect and trust us - as it opens up new worlds of possibilities to us.

Life does not r****d our abilities - life is simply the forum in which the game is played.  God wants us to learn what we came here to learn - and we will.  

God doesn't think in terms of good and bad, in my opinion.  A being of that magnitude understands that life is seldom black and white and that there is much to learn from adversity.  Don't worry about what God wants (God loves us no matter what) - just do what you can to fulfill your own personal mission.

Peace!