The Golden Rule embraces all nature.
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To discover God's perfect plan and obtain true fulfillment, we must use our freedom and choose to follow and seek Him with all our heart. (Jeremiah 29:13). Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."
The desires of our heart are those desires which are within God's plan. Once we get our "self" desires out of the way, we begin to understand what God planted within us at the moment we became a "new creation." (2 Corinthians 5:17).
When we truly delight in God, we discover our desires have become aligned with His will - we discover He has given us the true desires of our heart. because God has also given us the freedom to choose, we often use this freedom to create our own plan and seek after what we think will provide contentment and peace - only to learn the lesson of Solomon: seeking after our own desires is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes).

But this has certain problems in rightly comprehending (interpreting) what it is we are to believe ... If the passages were worded in the following way, they would be faithful to the original and would call more directly on our innnate human nature to strive for betterment and moral direction:

To discover the perfect plan of our meaning in life and obtain true fulfillment, we must use our freedom and choose to find purpose and value with all our heart. "Delight yourself in the wonders of nature and it will give you the desires of your heart."
The desires of our heart are those desires which embrace beauty and goodness. Once we get our "self" desires out of the way, we begin to understand what has been planted within our awareness at the moment we became a "new creation."
When we truly delight in the wonders of nature, we discover our desires have become aligned with a great love of the ethereal, an admiration or appreciation of sublime peace - we discover the true desires of our heart.
Because our nature is one of inquiry, we necessarily have the freedom to choose, and we often use this freedom to create our own plan. We then seek after what we think will provide contentment and peace, only to learn the lesson of Solomon: seeking after our own desires is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Just as our nature is ever one of inquiry, we can never be content with what we have. We must know more, feel more, have more. This is our fate, and yet also our redemption -- from the sheer complacence of an animal. An animal proceeds as programmed; it takes its behavior as the one way and does not rebel. If it eats ants, it eats ants; if it requires waxy leaves of a certain tree, it seeks them out. Humans seek what they know not.
This is our misery and our delight, as we discover ever-expanding wonders and are compelled to find sense in our ability to love.

But where in this soul-searching, this yearning to understand, to appreciate beauty, to wonder, and to do right does 'God' fit in?
Perhaps it is a way for some to place the source of our delight in life. If you're thankful to be alive, it's only natural to want to thank someone. Otherwise, there is some inchoate -- or burgeoning -- sort of guilt, some need to unburdon oneself. Or there is the mystery of life -- someone has to be in charge of all this ... chaos of life and the cosmos, making order of it all, right?
And if not, if we are in charge of our souls and how we determine to be just and what pleasures we find in our lives, how can we, merely humans, know that what we choose are the right ones? There surely must be someone who knows for sure.
There is a relief in relinquishing this power to another.
But doesn't this betray our worth? If we are not inherently valuable, then what of all the rest of our world? That, too would be forfeit, an illusion of ours.
Perhaps if Jesus said that he is the son of God, he meant that he, as a human being -- just as everyone -- has the inherent capacity within to learn and learn, that in the striving is our salvation. To be is to try, to trust in ourselves, together as a human community.

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