Since the fall, God and the thing of God have become alien to us. Like an orphan that has forgotten the face of his father, man has forgotten the way to his God. Sometimes man attempts to reconstruct God's image by creating gods of wood and stone. At other times, weary in his search for God, man convinces himself that there is no Creator. He begins to face what he believes to be the cruel fact of his own acute solitude.
Alienation is fundamental to our make-up and is the single greatest cause of human suffering.
He does not know the cause of his terrible dissatisfaction. He searches through philosophies, religions and even the occult, because he has an insatiable desire for the river of life. He is lost and cannot find his way. If man is good by nature, then he can find his own way to God. He can be trusted to do good.