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Part 12 – God's Nature, as a Self-for-Others

Among all unregenerate mankind there is a desire burning within – desiring to be quenched or satisfied. As we've stated earlier, God's innate desire is as a giver, a lover, a self-for-others. Man was created "upright" (Eccl 7:29), having that same innate desire, that is before Adam's fall. Then Adam's self-being became transmuted into a self-for self, a self-getter, and a manipulating taker, a trait we see in all men today, from their birth. By Adam's fall in the garden, mankind became a twisted self.