God originally created people to live in harmony with God, themselves, each other, and creation. God loves and understands each person completely. When people relate closely with God through worship and obedience, and treat themselves, others, and creation with respect, they will grow in happiness. However, disobeying God or failing to show proper respect will lead to unhappiness.
God originally created people to live in harmony with God, themselves, each other, and creation. God loves and understands each person completely. When people relate closely with God through worship and obedience, and treat themselves, others, and creation with respect, they will grow in happiness. However, disobeying God or failing to show proper respect will lead to unhappiness.
God originally created people to live in harmony with God, themselves, each other, and creation. God loves and understands each person completely. When people relate closely with God through worship and obedience, and treat themselves, others, and creation with respect, they will grow in happiness. However, disobeying God or failing to show proper respect will lead to unhappiness.
God teaches that: God knows and loves each human person God understands every human person completely no one can hide anything from God, the Creator people owe obedience to their Creator, on whom their lives depend people need to recognise God, their Creator, as more powerful than any power or force in the earth or the universe. God originally intended everyone to be close to God. The creation stories teach, for example, that: God personally creates the soul of every human individual each individuals life is a personal gift from God God loves each person in a special way God creates each individuals soul to live forever with God everyone depends upon God for every breath and movement all people are created to work with God in the development of creation including the development of a relationship with God their own personal development (as they are part of creation) the development of others the development of the earths environment and resources. Each person will grow in happiness if they love God in return. They do this by worshipping God, by praying and by behaving in ways that are in accordance with Gods will for them. Alternatively, no one can be completely happy for very long unless they relate personally with God. Nor can they be truly happy if they disobey God.
God originally created people in harmony within themselves
God understands every person completely. No one will ever be able to understand themselves as completely as does God. All who relate closely with God grow in self-understanding. They realise that they: are sacred are unique in being created in Gods image and likeness have within them the power to love, to do good, to forgive and to behave like God in many other ways can reflect God in different ways as men and women are loved completely by God, irrespective of any external characteristic, including height, size, rate of growth or disability need to exercise self-mastery have sexual gifts given by God. People grow in happiness as they behave in ways that show they appreciate these things about themselves. Alternatively, if they do not appreciate these things, people will not love and appreciate themselves as they should.
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3. GOD CREATES ORIGINAL HARMONY
God originally created people in harmony with each other
God originally created people for close friendship. This was founded upon their recognition that: each human being has been created by God people are sacred to God all people should recognise the sacredness of others women and men are equal in dignity human beings should see each other as persons, and never make judgements about others because of their physical appearance marriage was created by God God made men and women capable of sexual intercourse for the purposes of expressing married love to each other conceiving children. When people relate with others in ways that reflect these understandings, true friendship and peace grow in families, societies and between nations. These lead everyone to happiness. Alternatively, if they treat others in ways that fail to respect Gods original creation, there will be tensions, violence and even wars and much unhappiness.
God originally created people in harmony with creation
People affect and are affected by the rest of creation. God originally intended each to be good for the other. For this reason, God created people as being: capable of enjoying creation capable of using vegetation and the earths resources to provide for their needs able to care for the earth able to develop the goodness in creation able to work with God towards the further development of creation capable of understanding the good in every aspect of the universe. When people treat creation with the proper respect intended by God, they contribute to the happiness of present and future generations. Alternatively, if they treat creation without respect, they harm human relationships with: God self others creation. Gods purpose for creation is to call people to love their Creator, who loves them first. In each of the creation stories, God wanted people to: relate with God experience the inner peace and happiness that a personal relationship developed with God and behaving like God, brings experience the love and goodness people give and receive from each other understand and enjoy everything that is good in creation.
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