What does this mean? Human nature?

Question

What does this mean when someone asks you

"what is your view on human nature"?

can you answer it so i have an exemple

Answer 1

It is a perfect example of an oxymoron.

Answer 2

Human

Nature

What Is It?

Human

Nature

What Is It?

By Stephen Flurry

In this morally depraved society, many are now

saying there is no evil in the heart of man. Others

say man was born with an evil nature. Both of

these assumptions are wrong. What is human

nature? And where did it come from?

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The human mind: What a wonder! It can produce

the most sophisticated computer technology imaginable.

We have sent men to walk on the surface of the

moon—a robot to crawl on the surface of Mars, photographing

the terrain for us to examine. Yet the same minds which produce

such marvels of science and technology cannot solve

human evils, like war, violence, crime, immorality, dishonesty

and deceit. The awesome mind of man has not brought

about lasting peace. Indeed, the mind of man, contrary to

what some modern scholars might think, has produced an

abundance of evil, heartache and bloodshed. The question is,

why? How can a mind that produces such incredible technology

utterly fail when it comes to solving world problems? The

answer: human nature. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart [of

man] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

who can know it?” All of the evils plaguing society today can

be blamed on the deceitful, wicked human nature in man.

But that statement raises many vital questions: What is

human nature? Where did it come from? Did God create it in

man? God reveals the answers to these questions in the Bible.

But there is not one simple verse that gives all the answers.

We find the answer revealed “here a little, and there a little”

(Isaiah 28:10). We must begin at the very beginning.

Whe r e Did Sata n’ s Ev i l Natur e

Come From?

In Ephesians 3:9 we find that it was God “who created all

things by Jesus Christ.” God creates. And there is always a

great purpose behind anything God creates. He doesn’t create

H uma n Nat u r e : What I s I t ?

in confusion or disarray, because “God is not the author of

confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33). But, you may reason, didn’t

God create the archangel Lucifer, who became Satan the devil?

How did Satan get to be the way he is if God is the one who

created him? Where did his evil nature come from?

Notice Ezekiel 28:14-15: “Thou [Lucifer] art the anointed

cherub that covereth; and I [God] have set thee so: thou wast

upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down

in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy

ways from the day that thou wast created ….” Two things to

notice: Lucifer was created by God, and he was created perfect.

Lucifer had great knowledge, understanding and wisdom. He

was the greatest being God could create by fiat. The rest of

verse 15 continues, “till iniquity [or lawlessness]

was found

in thee.” So this great being—the greatest being God could

possibly create by fiat—who was taught at the very throne of

God, sinned and rebelled against God. How could that

have happened? God certainly didn’t create an evil devil. He

created a perfect,

beautiful archangel—Lucifer.

Isaiah asked the same question. “How art thou fallen

from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou

cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”

(Isaiah 14:12). God revealed the answer in the next two verses:

“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also

upon the mount of the congregation,

in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like

the most High” (verses 13-14). Lucifer allowed his beauty to

fill him with vanity. It wasn’t enough that God had placed him

on the throne of this Earth to administer the government of

God. He looked on what God had with envy—for God ruled

the entire universe. Lucifer thought he could eventually

ascend up into the heavens and forcefully remove God from

His throne! And so we see how Lucifer acquired this evil, sinful

nature. He acquired it through false reasoning, which

led to rebellion.

He falsely reasoned that he was just as good,

if not better, than the God who created him.

Ezekiel 28:17 says, “Thine heart was lifted up because of

thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of

thy brightness ….” This perfect, beautiful being, who was full

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of great wisdom and knowledge, became

corrupted because

of false reasoning. He allowed the wisdom and knowledge

God had given him to fill him with vanity. He then worked to

deceive those angels he ruled over on this Earth. He led one

third of the angels into rebellion against God and  

Answer 3

human attitude, human behaviour, mentality.