Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
Philippians 4:8

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Her World. Sharon eagerly awaits Peter's arrival. She envisions him walking in the door, walking over to her, embracing and kissing her, and telling her how glad he is to see her. She looks forward to sitting down to dinner and talking about all the things he did during the day. She wants to know every little detail. She looks forward to this personal time of sharing.

His World. As Peter leaves work and drives home, he envisions walking in the door, going to the bedroom, changing clothes, going to the living room, and turning on the TV. He looks forward to relaxing. He is exhausted from dealing with all the difficult business negotiations of the day. He has talked and talked all day long and now he just wants to be quiet. Finally, he can escape from the demands of the day's activities.

Their Worlds Collide. Peter walks in the door, Sharon beams warmly and greets him and he pecks her on the cheek, walks past her and heads straight for the bedroom. Sharon follows him and asks, "What's wrong?" Peter replies, "Nothing is wrong." He changes his clothes and walks to the living room. Sharon follows him and accusingly asks, "Why are you avoiding me?" Peter increases his volume, "I'm not avoiding you; I'm just trying to relax!" Peter turns on the TV and tunes out Sharon. Sharon responds by raising her voice, "I have been looking forward to talking to you all day!!" Peter yells, "I have been looking forward to peace and quiet. Give me a break!!!" Both Peter and Sharon are hurt, angry, and severely disappointed with their evening and with each other.

Sharon and Peter are experiencing anger, disappointment, isolation, loneliness, anxiety, fear, hopelessness, and conflict. Unfortunately, they do not have a clue why. They do not understand each other and they do not understand themselves. They feel out of control and at the same time controlled. The have raging conflicts between each other and within themselves. During the times that they feel loving and giving, they also feel neglected and unloved. Each is reaching out for unity, oneness, acceptance, understanding, and completion, but rarely finding it. Sometimes they feel helpless and hopeless. But, what can they do?

With the divorce rate among Christians around 50%, we all need an understanding of human behavior and human interactions that provides solutions to our problems. God opened the door to that understanding when He provided us the New Testament (NT). The NT is the only psychology book that exposes the underlying cause for mankind's misery and reveals the solutions that ultimately lead to joy and peace in every Christian's heart and mind. It explains how Christians like Sharon and Peter can live together in ways that promote edification - acceptance, honor, righteousness, friendship, emotional healing, and encouragement. The NT also teaches us how to understand and respond to the difficult trials and circumstances of life. It gives the details to the process we can use to overcome problems such as anger, anxiety, fear, sorrow, and depression. It teaches us how we can practice love and forgiveness. The NT reveals how our minds, emotions, and behaviors interact and control us.

This book is a New Testament psychology book that explains the psychology model The Natures of Mankind Psychology. In it, we not only lift psychological and philosophical truths from the NT, but also explain how you can apply them to your everyday life. This is a book for the serious-minded Christian, who wants to experience God's power and presence and who desires to walk in His ways - whatever they are. Are you that person? If so, read on and discover the wonders of God's creation: discover how He works in your life and mine.

As of today, April 4, 2006, the world's population is 6,505,037,929 people; therefore, there are at least 6,505,037,929 unique worlds that people live in.

This idea leads to many questions such as, "Don't we all live in the same world?," or perhaps you may ask, "Do I create a new world every time I 'make sense' of my existence?" Finally, "What do these worlds have to do with the problems that Peter and Sharon are experiencing?" As we begin to answer these questions, we will explore different kinds of worlds.

Kinds of Worlds:

1. Real World (God's World)

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:3); For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16)

2. External World (Sensory World)

so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. (Matthew 13:16); otherwise they might return and be forgiven. (Mark 4:12); Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured. (Mark 6:56); If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? (1 Corinthians 12:17); Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch! (Colossians 2:21)

3. Internal World (Personal World)

For we know in part and we prophesy in part (1 Corinthians 13:9); For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. (1 Corinthians 13:12); But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement. (Luke 9:45)

Don't we all live in the same world? It depends on how you define "world." If you define "world" as the world in which God "makes sense" of His existence, the world that only God knows and understands, then, "Yes, we all live in the same world." We call this world the Real World - the world of God's creation. However, the real world is comprised of visible and invisible elements, perishable and imperishable objects and people, good and evil entities, human and divine thoughts, and the infinite microcosms and macrocosms of the billions of galaxies in the universe. Therefore, as a finite human being, especially if you are non-Christians, you know little or nothing about the "real world."

If you define "world" as the world that you can know through your senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling) then, "No, we don't all live in the same world. In fact, no one lives in that world." We call this world the External World - the world outside the mind. You do not live in that world because it is a part of the real world: the world that only God can know. In addition, even the parts that you can sense are distorted and inaccurate. For example, if you are a non-Christian, the world, the flesh, and the devil has lied to you about the external world. Your own mind is corrupted and cannot properly interpret the information your senses provide you. Your reasoning and understanding are finite, distorted, and corrupted. Therefore, no one "senses" the external world in exactly the same way. In addition, you are born to a unique set of parents, your experience as an infant is distinctive, you are raised in a unique family and have unique interactions with each member of that family, and your experiences, good and bad along with your responses to those experiences are dissimilar. Even as a Christian, the external world is difficult to know (more on this later). Therefore, as a finite human being, especially if you are a non-Christian, you know little or nothing about the "external world."

If you define "world" as the world where you live alone, a world that holds your deepest, darkest, personal secrets, a world that no one knows except you, a world where the real you lives, then "No, you don't live in the same world." This world is that private place, known only to you. We call this world the Internal, Personal World - the world inside the mind. Since you cannot know the real world and cannot accurately sense the external world, then you have a unique perspective of the external world. Therefore, you have no choice but to create a world that is unique to your perceptions: a world in your own mind - your internal, personal world. Therefore, as a human being living in a private, internal, personal world, you know little or nothing about anyone else's private, internal, personal world.

Do I create a new world every time I make sense of my existence? Yes and No. Yes, because no two people "make sense" of their existence in exactly the same way. Every time you make sense of your existence, you create a unique internal, personal world. Perhaps "No" is a better answer because, at the minimum, every time you make sense of your existence in a different way, you modify your internal, personal world. Therefore, every time you learn something new or change your mind about something, you change your internal, personal world. This ability to modify your internal, personal world makes it possible for you to change your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This ability does not help a non-Christian very much though because it usually only addresses the symptoms of the underlying problem and not the underlying problem itself. But, as a Christian, your ability to create or modify your internal, personal world is what God uses to work miracles in your life. It is a God-given path to personal transformation.

What do these worlds have to do with the problems that Peter and Sharon are experiencing? Everything! If Peter and Sharon do not understand the differences among the real world, the external world, and their internal, personal worlds, they will never be able to understand or solve the problems they have within themselves or with each other. However, if they can accept the idea the only God knows the truth about the real world, the external world, and their internal, personal worlds, then they can start looking to Him for understanding about themselves and the worlds around them. We will explain how to work through this process later in this book. Even as Christians, Peter and Sharon will discover this to be a difficult process. Why? Because, the lies, deceptions, and misconceptions taught by the world, the flesh, and the devil still cripple and distort their internal, personal worlds.

For example, we know that Sharon and Peter hold a common misconception that their internal, personal worlds are the same. Therefore, they believe that they make sense of each other and their situations in the same way. Obviously, this is not the case. Peter's expectations were different Sharon's and Sharon's responses to Peter, while similar, were not the same as Peter's.

Sharon and Peter also believe the old adage, "what you see is what you get." They believe that the world they live in is the external world consisting of husbands, wives, children, schools, jobs, neighbors, churches, houses, cars, lawns, and all those other things they see, hear, taste, smell, and feel...but it is not. They think that they can know everything and solve every problem by using their senses...but they cannot. Therefore, Sharon and Peter try to use their minds to evaluate what the other was doing and saying to try to make sense of the conflict they were experiencing...but they cannot. Since they do not understand the unique worlds each of them lives in, they will continue to engage in a futile struggle for the resolution to their conflicts.

Since Sharon and Peter believe they live in the external world, they may also believe they live in the real world. However, until they link up with God, look through the door He has opened, and begin to apply His truths to their lives, they will not understand the real world (God's world), the external world (others), or their internal, personal worlds (themselves). They will continue to suffer and experience a sense of loneliness and loss that will haunt them to the end of their lives.

The Natures of Mankind (Internal Personal Worlds)

Sharon and Peter do not understand their own nature. They mistakenly believe that everyone is the same. However, the NT teaches that there are two kinds of natures: the sin nature and the divine nature. These natures produce two kinds of minds - a corrupt (depraved) mind and a spiritual (divine) mind. When they come to understand these two kinds of natures and minds and how they work, they will have discovered the underlying cause of and solutions to all of mankind's problems.

The Corrupt Internal Personal World. Peter and Sharon may be functioning based on their sin nature. The sin nature is a state-of-being: a natural birth produces the sin nature. If they are under the control of the sin nature, they will also have a corrupt mind: a corrupt mind is a by-product of the sin nature. The NT tells us that the corrupt mind produces all kinds of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil. The characteristics of the corrupt mind are:

(1) it is set on the flesh,

(2) it is hostile toward God,

(3) it cannot please God,

(4) it is useless,

(5) it is darkened in understanding,

(6) it is selfishly stubborn,

(7) it is hostile, and

(8) it is contaminated.

Therefore, the corrupt mind is full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. People who have these kinds of minds are gossips, slanderers, and haters of God. They are also insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Therefore, their internal, personal world is a corrupt, internal, personal world. (For more information on the corrupt internal, personal world - Sin Nature - see chapter 4).

The Divine Internal Personal World. Peter and Sharon may be functioning based on their divine nature. The divine nature is a state-of-being: a spiritual birth produces the divine nature. If they are under the control of the divine nature, they will also have a divine mind: a divine mind is a by-product of the divine nature. The characteristics of the divine mind are:

(1) love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control,

(2) it discerns spiritual things,

(3) it loves God and others,

(4) it is selfless, obedient to God, merciful, and forgiving,

(5) it harmonizes and brings peace and unity between people, and

(6) it produces life, peace, and humility.

For the sake of discussion, let us assume that Sharon and Peter have a divine internal, personal world. (For more information on the divine mind - Divine Nature - see chapter 4).

After becoming Christians, Peter and Sharon's sin natures and corrupted minds died and because of their spiritual birth, they received living, divine minds. However, even though they are now using divine, renewed minds to learn new truths, much of what they still believe comes from having made sense of God's world, their internal, personal worlds, and the external world with their corrupted minds. Therefore, their internal, personal worlds are still a mixture of lies and truths.

This bare-bones explanation of the two natures of mankind, the sin nature and the divine nature, is only the beginning of this study of the natures of mankind. However, as you continue to learn about the natures of mankind, you will begin to understand how your nature determines how you live your life. You will marvel at how God has intervened in your internal, personal world to provide you the way to change your nature. You will rejoice at how your new nature enables you to become more Christ-like, thereby, becoming closer to oneness with God.

Planet Earth is part of the real world and comprises part of the external world. There are real objects on the Earth. There are real people living on the Earth. And, while we know quite a bit about the things on planet Earth, we know very little about our own internal, personal worlds or the internal, personal worlds that other people live in. Each person builds his or her internal, personal world piece by piece. Every child starts with a very small internal, personal world and over time continues to build a larger internal, personal world through his or her own experiences and by using his or her own mind to make sense of those experiences.

When Jerold and Linda Reed created the psychological model The Natures of Mankind Psychology, they defined everything inside the mind as the Internal, Personal World and everything outside the mind as the External World (see figure 2.3). They also integrated the Real World - God's world into their explanation of the internal, personal and external worlds in as much as the NT explains it and is appropriate for the purpose of this book. While these are artificial definitions, they use them as a framework in which to discuss how God created us to function and how we can use our minds to become all God intended us to be.

Conflicting Internal Personal Worlds

Now that you understand that you live in an internal, personal world of your own creation, it is important that you understand that everyone else on planet Earth lives in an internal, personal world of his or her own creation. Not only do people have very different internal, personal worlds, they have very little overlap between their internal, personal worlds, therefore, they do not know very much about each other. Since your internal, personal world barely overlaps your spouse's internal, personal world, if at all, you have difficulty understanding your spouse and visa-versa.

Now, considering how much difficulty you are having with this multi-world concept and considering how many conflicting ideas and beliefs you have embraced over the years, you may be very confused about what is true and false or what is real and unreal. Now, consider that your spouse is going through this same process. You live in an internal, personal world that is not the same internal, personal world that your spouse lives in. Due to the differences between your internal, personal worlds, it is virtually impossible for you and your spouse or anyone else to have the exact same understanding of reality.

The Favorite Chair. A simple exercise will reveal the differences between your internal, personal world and your spouse's internal, personal world. You can see this difference by expressing your opinions about a simple thing that exists in the external world. In this exercise, you will write down a description of the "favorite chair." You and your spouse probably have your own favorite chairs. However, both of you should select the same chair. You choose. Now, each of you, write down a description of the favorite chair. Do not talk about it with your spouse, until you are done. Do not simply write something like, "It's a brown chair and I love to sit in it." Use lots of adjectives. Write something like, "It's a brownish, maroon chair. It is overstuffed. It is a recliner. It swivels from side to side. It has an adjustment for raising the height of my legs after becoming fully reclined. It has a good lumbar support system. It is not too hard, not to soft, it is just right. It provides just the right amount of body support for taking a nap…and so forth." Make your description as detailed and complete as possible. When you both have finished writing your descriptions, read them to each other. Finally, discuss how similar or dissimilar your descriptions are.

Now, consider that in your internal, personal world, the favorite chair may be an ideal chair for you, but in your spouse's internal, personal world, the favorite chair may be ugly and uncomfortable. The signals your body sends to your mind, based on the fabric, construction, amount of stuffing, and so forth, or the lack thereof, may support your idea of comfort or discomfort. How you make sense of this information is part of the process that you use to create your internal, personal world. Realize that your level of like or dislike for the favorite chair is a matter of your personal opinion - it is a matter of your internal, personal world and it has little or nothing to do with your spouse's internal, personal world or the external world for that matter.

Accept the fact that since you and your spouse live in different internal, personal worlds, you will make sense of the favorite chair in different ways. Realize that how you or your spouse makes sense of the favorite chair is based on what you or your spouse is describing and experiencing - it is based on what is happening in each of your own internal, personal worlds. Understand that your internal, personal world and the external world begin to separate as soon as your mind begins to make sense of the favorite chair. Acknowledge to one another that how you or your spouse makes sense of the favorite chair has little or nothing to do with the favorite chair that exists in the external world. It becomes your personal, unique favorite chair when you make sense of it in your unique, internal, personal world.

If understanding the differences between internal, personal worlds is problematic when talking about the favorite chair - which is an inanimate object - imagine the difficulty you will experience when you try to understand the differences between internal, personal worlds when talking about issues such as behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. When you say, "I am hurt when you do so-and-so," you need to realize that this statement comes from you making sense of another person's behaviors from inside your own internal, personal world. Likewise, your spouse is making sense of his or her behaviors from inside his or her own internal, personal world. As a result, your spouse will probably not understand "I am hurt" or "when you do so-and-so" in the same way you do. After all, the "I am hurt" and the "so-and-so behaviors" may not even exist in your spouse's world, at least not in the same way you make sense of them. Considering the difficulty that we have making sense of each other's internal, personal world, it is a miracle that any one of us can get along with anybody else.

Sharon and Peter made the false assumption that their internal, personal worlds were the same as the external world and it was devastating to their relationship. They need to learn how to stop making this almost universal mistake. But, as the English like to put it, "They're up against it" because the world, the flesh, and the devil taught both Sharon and Peter how to make sense of the external world when they were using their depraved minds. They did this to keep Sharon and Peter from the truth: so they could not see the external world. In fact, even if they are Christians, their internal, personal worlds are still somewhat corrupted and distorted. They still have an understanding of the external world based on a mixture of what they learned before they became Christians and what they have learned after becoming Christians.

One of the fundamental goals of Christianity, and therefore of The Natures of Mankind Psychology (NMP), is to teach you the process of sorting out the disparities among the things you have learned. You can use these teachings to begin discarding the lies and deceptions you learned from Satan and your sin nature and begin building your new internal, personal world by using your spiritual mind under the direction and control of the Holy Spirit.

The Real World - God's World

God created all the galaxies and all the worlds in them. He acts and intervenes in His creation. He has not left anyone alone in their own corrupted internal, personal worlds: worlds they built with their corrupted minds that were driven by their sin natures: worlds built on lies and deceptions from the world (systems), the flesh (birth-nature), and the devil (Satan): worlds built on delusions: worlds designed to keep them from the Truth.

In ages past, God acted in the Real World when He sent His Son to became a perfect human to live among us (see John 1:14). He acted in the Real World to save us (see John 3:17). He acted in the Real World so we could live our lives through Him (see 1 John 4:9). God acted in the Real World so we could have eternal life (see John 3:16). Finally, God acted in the Real World by beginning the process of overlapping the Real World with our corrupted internal, personal worlds.

This overlapping of the Real World and your internal, personal world began when you and God established a relationship (see chapter 5). He acted in the Real World to (1) conquer the rulers of the world of the world (systems), the flesh (birth-nature), and the devil (Satan) (see Colossians 2:15), (2) set you free from sin and enslaved you to Himself (see Romans 6:22), protect you from the evil one (see John 17:15), (3) give you a new birth and to prevent Satan harming you (see 1 John 5:18), and (4) become one with you (John 17:21,22).

In the present, God interacts with your new internal, personal world (created by your divine mind that is driven by your divine nature) to give you the ability to (1) stop practicing sin (see 1 John 3:8), (2) defeat the world, the flesh, and the devil (see 1 John 5:4), (3) overcome Satan's emissaries (see 1 John 4:4), (4) overcome the flesh (sin-nature) (see Romans 6:19), (5) overcome evil forces (see Ephesians 6:12), (6) defend yourself (see Ephesians 6:16; 2 Thessalonians 3:3), and exercise your freedom to join with God to continue the process of overlapping your internal, personal world with God's world (see Romans 12:1,2).

You can use your senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling to bring a hot, juicy steak into your internal, personal world, but you cannot do that with God. It is not possible to bring God into your internal, personal world by using your senses; you must exercise your faith (see Chapter 5). In the Real World, there is more than the visible - more truth and reality than what you can sense by seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling. In the Real World, which includes everybody's internal, personal worlds (inside the mind) and everybody's external worlds (outside the mind), there is the visible and the invisible (see Colossians 1:16). Those things that you can sense about God's creation were created from the invisible (see Hebrews 11:3), but God Himself is not visible (see Colossians 1:15; John 1:18). Therefore, you must establish an internal, personal, interactive relationship with God, not by using your senses, but by exercising your faith (see Hebrews 11:1). You must also live your daily Christian life by embracing God's presence in the external world and in your internal, personal world and by exercising your faith (see Hebrews 11:3).

Overlapping Worlds

Overlapping the Internal, Personal World with the External World and the Real World. As a Christian, you started the process of overlapping your internal, personal world with the the Real World (God's World) when you established a relationship with God. Then, you enhanced your new relationship through the process of renewing of your mind resulting in transformation. This transformation process produces the change that makes you more Christ-like. This transformation process changes your internal, personal world. You renew your divine, spiritual mind by purging your mind of all the lies and deceptions that the world, the flesh, and the devil taught you when your mind was corrupted (see Chapters 6-13). You create the conditions for transformation by accepting the truth in God's world - the New Testament. Then, you experience the transformation. The experience of mental renewal and transformation validates God's will - that it is good, acceptable, and perfect (see Romans 12:2).

The process of renewing your mind requires you to stop blindly accepting whatever the world, the flesh, and the devil has told you and continues to tell you. It requires you to get control of every thought, idea, concept, and false conclusion from the past and from the future and test each one against the truth. Once you have destroyed strongholds, false arguments, and proud obstacles, and have taken control of every thought, idea, concept, and false conclusion, the process of mental renewing requires you to discard them and replace them with God's truth. It requires you to accept and to live by the Way, the Truth, and the Life: Christ.

When you start using your divine, spiritual mind, you will begin to make sense of the external world from God's point of view. Your divine, spiritual mind enables you to interpret the external world so it conforms to the truths of God's world - the New Testament.

The New Testament explains the process of transformation and how to overlap your internal, personal world with the Real World (God's world). The Natures of Mankind Psychology illustrates how to use these processes (see chapters 6-13).

Overlapping Internal Personal Worlds. It is not profitable to overlap corrupted internal, personal worlds based on lies, deceptions, false assumptions, and conclusions and based on faulty methods of making sense of life with depraved minds. In other words, overlapping worlds does not work with non-Christians. However, as Christians, it is profitable to overlap our internal, personal worlds based on our renewed, divine, spiritual minds and transformed lives. It is profitable to overlap our internal, personal worlds when the process is based on what we know about the Real World. When we overlap our internal, personal worlds based on how God sees everything, based on our relationship with God, and based on our interaction with God, He will guide us into all truth (see John 16:13).

When Sharon and Peter begin to overlap their individual internal, personal worlds with God's world, they will begin to understand the external world and begin to integrate it with the Real World (God's world). Sharing God's point of view about the Real World and the external world as well as their personal Christian lifestyles will provide them the basis for truly becoming Christians who have the "same mind."

Once Sharon and Peter begin to see the Real World and their own internal, personal worlds from God's point of view, both of them can begin sharing with each other what they have learned about the Real World. They can begin sharing what God has done for them, what He is doing for them, and what He will do for them. They can begin sharing their experiences of renewing their minds and how God is transforming their respective lives.

In all Christian relationships, including marriage, God wants you to live with every other Christian by having harmony of minds and by agreeing with one another (see Romans 12:16). God grants all of us the ability to be of the same mind (see Romans 15:5) God wants you to have the same attitudes, reasons, understandings along with your purposes and intentions with all other Christians, including your spouse (see 1 Corinthians 1:10; Philippians 2:2 ).

Notice that when you overlap your world with your spouse's world, both of your internal, personal worlds begin to change (see figure 1.5). Overlapping worlds is about knowing, understanding, and accepting the other person "as they are," not about changing each other's worlds such as the supposedly "right" or "wrong" way to load a dishwasher (loading from the front vs. loading from the back) or the "right" or "wrong" way to put toilet paper on the paper holder (paper over the roll vs. paper under the roll). However, as your internal, personal worlds begin to overlap with the Real World - and as your internal, personal worlds begin to overlap with each other, your internal, personal worlds will begin to change. Your internal, personal worlds will begin to overlap and you will begin to agree on some of the things that are in the real and external world.

Christianity and the Christian lifestyle are all about overlapping your own internal, personal world with God's Real World. It is about knowing God and learning His truths so you can live according to His ways. The ultimate goal is for you to become complete and perfect in Christ (see James 1:4). You are to reach full growth in everything into Christ (see Ephesians 4:15).

The NT is the only psychology book that exposes the underlying cause for mankind's misery and it is the only book that reveals God's solutions to our problems. Those solutions ultimately lead to joy and peace for every Christian heart and mind. The Natures of Mankind Psychology not only lifts these truths from the NT, but also explains how to apply them to everyday life.

Jerold and Linda Reed started this book with a verbal conflict between a husband and a wife. It seemed like a good way to illustrate how people live in different worlds. They continued to explain why they live in different worlds and how they can overlap their worlds and resolve their conflicts.

However, the purpose of this book is to focus on the individual Christian and his relationship with God. The scenarios in subsequent chapters are more personal and individual as are the solutions to various problems such as anger, anxiety, fear, sorrow, and depression.

It should be noted that this is a systematic, how-to guide to the application of the truths and concepts taught in the New Testament regarding human-behavior: the dynamics among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors; and relationships: relationships between God and mankind and between mankind and mankind. It is a personal guide for transformation.

The contents of this web page are excerpted from Chapter 1, Worlds Apart, in the book Natures of Mankind Psychology.

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