'Being born good and Being born evil'. These are words that go around when describing human nature. Is human nature inherently good or evil? The answer to this question from the Bible is that it is both.
In the beginning, man was created in the image of God, in the likeness of God. God saw that it was 'exceedingly good'. But sin entered into man. From then on, sin began to consume man's nature. This is the biblical picture of man. Often in the Bible, 'Satan' appears and turns man towards sin. As a child I was told that 'Satan is the power that separates man from God'.
According to the First Epistle of John in the New Testament, 'God is love'.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:7-10. KJV
This love is said to have been manifested in the sending of God's Son Jesus Christ as an atonement offering for sin. Satan is the power that separates man from love, and sin is man's nature to answer to that power since the Fall.
Why do people hate people? Why do people hurt people? Why do people curse people? Why do people humiliate people? Why do people kill people? Why do massacres take place? Why do wars never cease from the world?
The Bible confronts this question with the answer 'sin'.
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