Last Update 01/17/08

Throughout this web site, we have stressed how much more control you can have over your life if you are willing to challenge and discard myths and replace them with the truth. We have emphasized that while it is your responsibility for "renewing" your mind, it is not possible for you to be transformed without the power and presence of God in your life. Your dependence on God is crucial to your success in becoming more like Jesus. While it is imperative to depend on God for your transformation, you must do your part in "renewing" your mind. The exercises in this book have Tracking Charts to help you document your own effort in "renewing" your mind. When you combine dependence on God with active effort on your part, the result will be a continuing transformation of your life. Now we will focus on what we call the 19 axioms of the Natures of Mankind Psychology (NMP).

The Nineteen Axioms of the Natures of Mankind Psychology (NMP)

1. A Personal World is created by every person and is unique to every person.

2. The External World is perceived differently by every person based on the accuracy of their sensual input and their interpretation of their sensual input.

3. The Real World is God's World and in its totality can be known only by God, however, God has made it possible for mankind to know parts of the Real World that God chooses to reveal to them.

4. Your relationship with God determines the success or failure of your life. Therefore, if you are not in poor health, financially disadvantaged, or succumbing to the difficulties of old age, the major human problems you struggle with - violence, crime, verbal-, emotional-, financial-, social-, physical-, and spiritual-abuse, alcohol and drug addiction, unresolved "bad" experiences, and undefeated sinful thoughts and behaviors - are the result of having an unsatisfactory relationship with God.

5. God has gifted you with a divine nature, your "new self," that you can use to successfully carry out God's plan and purpose for your life.

6. Your divine nature enables you to control your own life with the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, and therefore control your feeling thinking-patterns, body-emotions, and observable behaviors. However, your divine nature does not enable you to control other people or circumstances in life. In fact, you cannot control anyone or anything other than yourself.

7. Your ultimate empowerment to live a successful Christian life comes from your association with the Holy Spirit - that association builds characteristics into your life such as love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

8. Spiritual forces (Satan, demons, angels, God) influence your mind and mental processes either through the sensory input system or through the extra sensory input system. The extra sensory influences come in the form of "I" thoughts (thoughts that seem to come from yourself).

9. Your "old self" is dead, yet it can influence you because of the residual effects of habits, thinking-patterns, and belief systems you developed when your "old self" was alive.

10. God lives with you in a symbiotic relationship. You are in God and God is in you.

11. Your feeling thinking-patterns, your six-step mental process, and your belief system produce your body-emotions and your behaviors.

12. The Christian mind is separate from the Christian brain.

13. Your physical health or pathology influences how your brain functions and therefore influences how well your mind can express itself through the brain.

14. Your "basic needs" are satisfied primarily through your relationship with God and His provisions.

15. The accuracy of your Personal World (personal reality) is dependent on God's revelation of Himself and His truths to you.

16. The accuracy your Personal World (personal reality) is dependent on your current belief system and hypotheses under validation. Personal reality may or may not reflect reality from God's point of view.

17. Your Personal World (your mind) can be transformed, becoming more Christ-like, through the process of "renewing" your mind and making yourself available to God's presence and power. This renewing and transforming process is accomplished by identifying lies and deceptions of the world, the flesh, and the devil, discarding them, replacing them with the truth, and requesting God to transform you.

18. Except for a pathological condition, you can choose to think whatever you want, feel anyway you want, and behave in any manner you want.

19. The best guidelines for relating to others is found in 1 Corinthians 13: the love definition.

All Christians have these axioms working in their lives. How well they succeed in living their Christian lives depends on how well they use them.

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