Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
Everything is subject to change except God Himself.
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
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