is man inherently good or evil?
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Good...\nMy proof....look into the eyes of a newborn.....
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Evil exists. Devil is a word humans created to make the evil less abstract and more tangible.\nIt is easier to hate an entity than a concept.
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The root of evil, is the tendency to make real what is pure whim.  And to not know the difference.  \n\nEvil only exists in the minds of the individual who groups up with other individuals and sacrifices lives for pure whim and fantasy.  Examples, "It's God's plan", "The greatest good for the greatest number",  "I felt good, thus it must be right".\n\nWe can rationalize anything under these three subjective moral systems.  Supernatural, social, and emotional.
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No.  Morality CANNOT be based on God.  Does God command certain things should be done simply on a whim or does he command certain things are good or bad because they ARE good or bad?  If God commanded that it was good to go out and kill people would it be good?  Heck no!  Killing would still be bad.  Thus, good and bad cannot be based on God because God must use some kind of rationale to determine what is good and bad.  Why do we need God to figure this out?  It is perfectly logical that it is not a good thing to kill other people, so we do not need God to tell us that or determine any other moral questions.\n\nUse your mind.  It's much better than mindlessly following the bible like a sheep.
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Define good and evil in this world. Saddam is an evil man. There are men at large right now who are guilty of similar atrocities and are in our own country.\n\nUnfortunately, some of our people consider them heroes.\n\nLook deep inside of yourself and try to tell me who is actually right in this world. It is a sad and scary state of affairs.
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Evil is a consequence of the presence of free-will. Given free-will, some people will choose good, and some will choose evil (some fraction of the time).\n\nFor good to exist, evil does not need to exist.\n\nHowever, for good to be truly appreciated, evil may be a backdrop that makes good that much more appreciatable (to coin a term).\n\nAlso, there is greater virtue in being good when everyone around you is being evil. \n\nAnd, the presence of evil provides an environment (for a limited period of time) where souls can grow and develop character (in a manner consistent with God's purposes for our universe and for us).\n\nFor a brief explanation of God's purposes in creating the Universe and human beings, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/new/godspurposes.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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No one can prove bcoz are not evil they are Finest creature made by god after Man.They are too caring, lovingly and friendly for man that they never be come into a category of Evil
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poverty...which is the root of all evil
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I believe people are inherently evil. When bringing up a child, you do NOT have to teach them to be bad, they already know that. But you sure do have to teach them to be good! interesting, I think!
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The issue is not that God’s goodness, God’s power, and evil’s reality can’t fit together, but that there are additional pieces to the puzzle that fit between them and hold them together.\n\n1. Free Will is a partial answer. \nFree will gives a partial answer to this question of evil and suffering. It goes like this: \n\nGod made humanity with free will. \nEvil is a result of human choices. Our first parents chose to sin. \nAs a result of sin, this world has been plunged into suffering. \nEvil, therefore, finds its origin not in the Creator, but in the creature. God receives no blame for evil—we do. We get the credit for evil because we’re the ones who chose to abandon God.\n\n2. As a result of free will, history is discontinuous. \nThere was no evil in God's original creation. But Adam had free will—he was able to sin or to not sin. And he chose to sin. And Adam's choice affected more than just himself. He represented all of humanity. Indeed, Adam represented the whole world (he had dominion over it), and when Adam was sinning, the whole world was declaring war on God. Thus even the natural world was plunged into suffering—animate as well as inanimate (the ground being cursed in Genesis 3 and thus awaiting full salvation at Christ’s return — Romans 8:19-22). This discontinuity is what Christians call the Fall. The world is good (Gen. 1), but fallen in rebellion against God. \n\nHow could God create a world full of evil and suffering? He didn’t. He created a world in which people enjoyed communion with God, intimacy with each other, perfect harmony with the creation, and everlasting life—a world with no suffering, no sin and no guilt. History is radically discontinuous. The world changed at the Fall. \n\nAnd the fact that the Bible says the world is good but fallen certainly makes sense of life. Human beings are capable of great beauty and kindness, but also great evil. Children are cute, but selfish. Adults are smart, but manipulative. The Bible accounts for both the glory and the shame of being human. We’re God’s image, but an image marred and distorted by our divorce from our Creator. \n\nThe Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal spoke of the grandeur and misery of humanity. We are capable of great things, but are always capable of pondering an existence better than the life we now have. Thus we find ourselves in misery precisely because we have the ability to contemplate a better existence. Perhaps the fact that we can imagine a life without suffering is itself a reminder deep within our human consciousness of the life we once enjoyed in loins of father Adam — a life we have lost and can only regain through the redemptive intervention of God in human history. This is a redemption that will only be complete when Jesus Christ returns.\n\n3. If you want God to eradicate evil, you’re demanding that He eradicate us. God’s alternative to eradicating evil people is to redeem them. \nRemember the words of Peter: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). You blame God for evil in the world? I assure you He can take care of the problem right now — but you won’t like the way He does so. Is there evil in your heart? He can destroy your heart at any moment. The amazing thing, though, is that God doesn’t do this. He made your tongue, and you use it to speak against Him — but He is patient with you. For now. \n\nRedemption is God’s striking alternative to eradication. Rather than destroying his fallen creation, He has chosen to restore a people for Himself, a people who one day will live with Him in a restored creation (2 Peter 3:13).\n\n4. Evil is not a thing, but a privation of the good. \nThis was the point that Augustine made in the fourth century when refuting the dualistic Manichean cult out of which he had come when converted to Christ. Mani h
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Good and bad are such relative terms. Comparatively if they behave in such a way that's so bad like they enjoy killing and tormenting children or so good like they give away all thier possessions to feed the homeless you can be tipped off. But on a regular day to day nothing is ever as obvious. You gotta check some of your own standards. Do you notice if they act more good than bad in every day situations?
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... fairly straight forward I believe.\n\nOne good man is worth ten [bad ones].\n\nA single man that knows what to do is as good as ten men that don't know what to do.
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Well, I suppose in the most basic of terms, "good" is what is beneficial and helpful to the object of the action (it is "good" of me to pet my dog, as he likes it).  "Evil" would then have to be the opposite of that, the absence of good; what is harmful to the object of the action (it is "evil" of me to hit my dog, as that would hurt him).  Those are, I think, the absolutely most simple definitions.
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well, you can't really prevent badness forever. If there's goodness, then there's got to be badness, too. They can't be one without the other. Good and evil are like 2 parts of the same thing. \nBadness can be reduced somehow, but this depends on us. People just have to be better and more understanding with each other.
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I agree.Man made concepts of good and evil.No matter how bad we may think something is,it is just an opinion,not the truth.No one can really determine what is really good or bad,they can only give their opinion.Many may say that God can judge what is Good or bad,but who can determine that the bible is the word of God?No one.\n\n\nEverything just is.\n\n"Nothing is Good or bad.It's our thoughts that make them so"\n\n-Shakespeare-\n\n\n"Who knows what is good and bad"\n\n-Lao tzu,the founder of Taoism\n\n\nThere is no absolute truth regarding morals.They are all opinions.
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Evil Angels or Good Angels?
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By DEFINTION, God is good. \nAnything He does is good, never bad.\nTherefore, if He does something that *seems* bad to us, there is a good reason for it.