Cross Balance

Two results of selfishness

In Tim LaHaye’s book, “Spirit Controlled Temperament”,
he explains how  putting ourselves at the centre of our lives,
instead of God,
leads to a dichotomy of weakness types
– those resulting from fear; and those resulting from anger.  
Fear-based weaknesses tend to develop in the introverted personalities,
and are expressed differently in the melancholic and phlegmatic temperaments.
Anger based weaknesses develop in the extravert personalities,
and are also distinct between the two temperaments, sanguine and choleric.  
The diagram above shows how.

Our faculties can be compared with computing systems.
Data is “observed” or input via keyboards, mouse or CDROM.
The processor interprets the data.
And the monitor, diskette, or speaker “express” or output the results.
All this information is applied to machines etc to control how they move and act.
Computers can be a force for good and bad.
Sometimes I wonder if the Internet
is not the electonic equivalent of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
– the ease with which both good and evil can be accessed is astounding!.