Website owner: James Miller
Prevalent and serious problems that plague people:
1. insecurity (fear of losing job)
2. inferiority complex (or lack of confidence)
3. guilt
4. jealousy and envy
5. bitterness, inner anger, hatred, resentment
6. bad interpersonal relationships (especially within a
family)
7. loneliness
8. boredom
9. addiction to alcohol, drugs, etc.
10. abuse by someone over you (boss, parent, etc.)
Q. What are the causes of bad interpersonal relationships
between a husband and wife?
A. mistrust
infidelity
dishonesty
bad temper
flirting
extravagance with money (i.e. one person likes to spend
money while the other is trying to save it)
verbal abuse (i.e. not being careful what you say to the
other person, not treating them with the politeness and
respect that all people should be treated with)
disagreeable or nasty disposition
irresponsibility as a personality trait
emotional problems of one or the other or both
insecurity of one or both
unfairness or injustice on part of one or other
Q. How many of the above problems could be avoided by right
living, good character, the serious observance of God's moral
law? (i.e. the practice of honesty, justice, moral purity,
patience, love, industriousness, self-reliance, etc.)
Nov 1975
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