What is a Man's Nature?
And how does it affect every living soul in Mankind?
When presupposing any form or kind of a proposition, on how to explain what is work, that a grandfather wants to deliver to his grandchildren, who are under 18 years of age he will probably begin with a story some what like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
How ever that same grandfather who is being asked a question by his grown up grandchildren who are now 25 and older about what is a Mans Nature? And how does it affect every living soul in Mankind every where? Will probably start with a Paradox, and may be a Parable or two, so as to stimulate interest and help his grandhildren to exercise their thinking in more productive ways. For example how tall does a adult Man or an Adult Woman look to a child of seven who is laying on their back on the ground in the park, when friends and visitors of their parents walk up to them to say hello? To them height is the inference and how to judge the person's height accurately - is the paradox. Because until we add a dimension to the question, height and tallnes is still in the in paradox stage in the childs thinking. And we can also ask the question of how do you describe how far is down, to a child of ten, when he is standing on the ground? This too is a paradox until other dimensions are added. But a parable gives us both a paradox and the added dimensions which makes it in to a parable so that the mental thinking faculties of his grown up grandchildren can be used more productively, to arrive at the answer that their grandfather is wanting them to supply him for them selves.
Grandfather's usually know how their grandchildren are likely to behave in these so called private and personal and serious chat sessions, so he then asks of his grown up grandchildren? "How about we tape this discussion, so that you can then take it home with you and do some more productive listening with it, and while your thinking of things extra, put pen to paper and write every thing that comes to mind, down, and bring it to me later on, o.k." For this is a very good productive way that grandfathers use to avoid the usual onslaught of unproductive questions and answers and debates, that his grandchildren are very prone to doing in this situation.
So the grandfather puts on a blank three hour tape and goes forth in to a dialog, and begins by saying: Firstly I will give you three pre-suppositions, and then, I will become more instructive, o.k. Here is a presupposition: To my way of thinking, I believe that Mankind in every Race, in every Nation, in every Land has a naturally instinctive inbuilt idea of what and how their lives should be lived and governed, not just for them selves but for every one else every where in the World, even when they have not personally met every one from every place in the Earth, as it is purely an instictive in built thing that we all have in common.
This is my pre-supposition: To my way of thinking, I believe that every Man Woman and Child that is ever born and ever will be born already has in built in them since time began a predisposition to want to run and govern their own lives and the lives of every one else for the so called good of every one including themselves.
A Christian Pre-supposition is this: That we are all created in the image and likeness of God, to serve, obey and worship God and since the fall of mankind in Adam, that all of his seed and that of Mankind from his seed from Adam, has a totally fallen nature which rebels against any form of Government and accountability to God in and through Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God who is both God with the Father, and God with the Holy Ghost, equal in all parts with God and the Holy Ghost as God who is our only Redeemer and Mediator, for all of His pre-destined chosen and elected People.
So here we have certain parables, which increase in intensity and directness from the grandfather to his grown up grandchildren. So as to make their young and investigative minds do more of the foot work for them selves, hoping that they will not reject any thing from these parables but to use these parables with their investigations; as he also gives them further instructions of how to write their thoughts and their questions down on paper first, and then he directs them to take three months to look at three Christian Bibles, the first one he mentions is the Authorized King James Bible, and the Second he mentions is the New King James Bible, and the third he mentions is the American Standard Bible, and then he also suggests that they get a copy of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and a copy of the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Helvetical Confession of Faith and look up the various passages relating to Man's Fallen Nature, and to see if they can find for them selves, about Man's natural inability to save himself, and his natural inability to understand how God is God, the triune God, without equal though he represents himself in three forms as the Word of God, as God the Father , as Jesus the only begotten Son of God and God the Holy Ghost.
