THE NEED OF HUMAN NATURE

The Need of Human Nature ~ 24 ~ man lies in his loss of God; His salvation is dependent only on rediscovering his God. In their attempt to understand human nature, anthropologists have studied different societies. They are all agreed that thousands of years of human history testify to the fact that the idea of God is inherent in man’s nature. Just as sheep are instinctively herbivorous and cats instinctively carnivorous, and it is impossible to change these instincts, so the concept of God is inseparable from human nature. Communist society provides us with a contemporary illustration of this fact. After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, socialist dogma completely excluded the idea of God. Education and training in every field was based on atheistic principles. Even so, consciousness of God is profoundly embedded in the younger generation of Soviets, who have been brought up in an entirely atheist environment. This is clear from the following incident. In 1973 a Soviet jetliner was flying over the eastern part of India. The engine failed and the plane