Doctrine of Mental Attitude

What you think is what you really are. Therefore, your mental attitude determines both your life and your character (Prov. 23:7).
During the angelic conflict and human history, there are two conflicting attitudes striving for control of the mentality of the soul: divine viewpoint and human viewpoint (Isa. 55:7–9).
1. Divine viewpoint is the “mind of Christ” and the believer’s orientation to life based on the thinking, value system, and problem-solving ability gleaned from Bible doctrine.
  1. God’s plan, Operation Grace, demands a transformation of the thinking of the believer-priest to divine viewpoint (Rom. 12:2; 2 Tim. 1:7).
  2. The intake of doctrine under the daily function of GAP changes the believer’s mental attitude to divine viewpoint (1 Cor. 2:16; 2 Cor. 10:4–5; Phil. 2:5).
  3. Divine viewpoint results in the following:
    1. Confidence under all circumstances in life (2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8).
    2. Stability in adversity or prosperity (Phil. 4:7; 2 Thess. 2:2).
    3. Inner happiness that produces capacity for life, love, and blessing (Phil. 2:2).
    4. Giving with the proper motivation of grace orientation (2 Cor. 9:7).
    5. Capacity to love God, and a relaxed mental attitude toward people (1 Cor. 13:4–8a; 1 John 4:19).
2. Human viewpoint is any human or satanic system of thinking, values, or problem solving that is contrary and opposed to divine viewpoint, values, and problem solving as revealed in the Bible.
  1. Mental attitude sins produce self-induced misery (Prov. 15:13).
  2. Worldliness is human viewpoint mental attitude rather than overt activity (Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:2).
  3. Evil is something you think rather than something you do (Matt. 9:4; Gal. 6:3). Doing results from thinking.

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