" For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16 I ponder this in the sense of not being a rebuke, but instead being a factual understanding of our current hybrid human homo sapien mammal scenario. If I look at a squirrel I see that he wants to eat, wants to play, wants to make babies, wants to claim his territory, and then sleeps. Most animals essentially follow this pattern. So I am a mammal. And the Bible sets the pattern of us as flesh, eyes, pride. Now the big word added is : lust But is this a bad word? Not really. ἐπιθυμία (greek) .. lust = yearning, longing, desire, craving So once again, with this word 'lust' we are back to the basics of the mixed tree of good and evil . Looking at the Scripture ' 1 John 2:16 ' again, we could say: For all that is in THIS WORLD of human mammals, is the yearning, longing, desire, craving of the flesh hu...