Are children born "evil"?
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No.\nChildren are born sinless and pure.
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The answer: YES, but it has nothing to do with good and evil or right and wrong. It has to do with going against the established norms set forth by a society in which you live.
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No....when a child is born the mind and attitudes are like a blank page and the parents are the most responsible people for shaping the behavior of the child. Here is an example...when I was a very young child I would go out to play and if I saw a scotter that belonged to the next door neighbors child but no one was using it I thought it would be ok for me to take the scooter and play with it and bring it home as mine. I felt no sense of stealing what did not belong to me. I did not know what the word steal meant.....until my mom said to me what the heck I was doing stealing the neighbos children toys !! Then she explained to me what private property and stealing and hurting someone by stealing their property meant,and I never stole anything again !!
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Simple answer:\n\nYou're question is too deep to answer fully in this type of forum, but I will still comment on the basics.\n\nLet me address a few things first. You're question was phrased rather negatively, as if this evil act (stillborn babies) was directly given by God. They are not. (From this point forward let's assume God exists and the Bible is His word so that things make sense at least in this thread).\n\nThe Bible says that God is all good and all powerful. So if evil and suffering exists (stillborn babies) why doesn't God stop it? Well, first off God can easily stop it. That much is obvious. The second half is less obvious.\n\nGod says He created adam and eve perfect, sinless, without suffering, in a perfect world, living in God's presence. God also gave them free will to either choose God or reject Him. They opted for the latter. Because of that man separated himself from God and was unable to return to Him by themselves (God fixed the problem by sending Jesus but that is a topic for a different post). Now God could have stopped them from sinning but that would have been pointless. Imagine being a parent and stopping your kid from rejecting you thereby forcing them to love you. That would be torture and would turn your kids into mere robots and slaves. God wanted people to frelly choose Him so He had to give the ability to reject Him and also to face the consequences of that action otherwise people would never learn from doing bad things (ie If I killed someone and then God instantly resurrected that person, I would feel no guilt or shame because my bad actions would have no consequences). To make a long story short we now live in a world riddled with disease and suffering because this is all the consequences of bad actions that we are forced to live with. These consequences lead to such horrible things like stillborn babies. \n\nDoes God want that? no. Will the baby go to heaven? In my opinion yes. Does God use even such a horrible event like a stillborn child to bring about an even greater good? In my opinion yes. Does that mean I know what that is? no. I believe it on faith just like every other believer in God, that even though suffering and evil exists, God uses it all to bring about even greater good. An example would include Jesus being beaten and spit upon and being crucified (this would be evil and suffering) and using that event to actually bring about the salvation of all mankind to whomever will believe (which is what happened).\n\nI hope this answered your question and helps.
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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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Who decides whats evil?
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BOTH!!!evil is as evil does!
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evil malicious hateful and otherwise objectionable.\nno? shit?\nok there's nothing wrong with it. my mom is three years older than my dad. my girlfriend is 2 years older than me.
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There's a good majority, Mixed with the created hormonal emotions from the processed food we eat, of humans that  define their reality in pain and suffering. They can't ever be happy. And their thoughts and Ideas, which are quite subjective, of what a perfect world should be, is always wanting to be put into effect. Like Hitler. His perfect world consisted of only blonde-haired blue-eyed germans. He was also beaten severly as a child, and i'm guessing a bit repressed. There are a lot of factors that go into it. Fear leads to anger. anger leads to hate. hate to suffering. It's true. Perphaps the key to fear is reverse paranoia. Instead of everyone expecting everyone to do wrong unto them, perhaps if they expected only the best from them. It's my personal experience that thoughts, whatever they may be, good or bad in perception, that they'll come to life and be seen most by the mind of that who thinks most about it. Your brain has a way of blocking out things it sees regularly from your memory. Only things that are of perceived importance, (things being thought of often) stay in memory, or in notice, on sight. Awareness is created by change. Things that are normal occurances always blend in. Therefore if you make a note of thinking most of good positive things, you'll find that you'll become a good positive person in essence. Likewise if you define your reality through narrowminded beliefs and generalizations, and only feel reality though existance in pain, always paranoid around those whom you don't know personally, then yes, you'll become old from the stress, twisted, maladjusted, and another force generating more negative energy for the world to pick up. Good begets good. Evil begets evil. If the world is to have full and thorough peace within it. There's going to have to be a LOT of accepting going on. Personally, I don't believe that'd be very possible due to the very natures of certain personalities. I believe everything must balance. There is no all good or all evil. Good wouldn't be good without evil. People cannot live without killing and consuming another live being or object. Whether it be plant or animal, the world was destined to always have some form of evil or another in it. I believe it's just the balance of society and of the universe. Otherwise, it'd just be our ego's driven by emotions telling us that death and dying and killing is bad or wrong. Our emotions tell us that, but universally, you'll notice the universe completely indifferent to all emotion. Perphaps just a mechanism to keep us alive, just like lust is a mechanism to keep us reproducing. If it wasn't for our minds ability to believe anything and to perceive purpose, i think we'd all go insane for being like puppets in the grand scale scheme of things, being strong along by our emotions and feelings towards certain things, embedded in our genetics and brains to make it all but most difficult to do anything but what the brains automated reaction had in mind. All in all, stepping out of human persona, and perception of derived purpose, in the grand scheme of things, without human aspect of good or evil, one could possibly say everything is perfect as is. But somewhere somehow, perphaps this is just a good form of entertainment to another entity larger than ourselves, or perphaps our perceptions. The beat goes on da-da-doom-da-doom-da-da. It's going to continue whether we like it or not, so we may as well know our roles and shut our mouths. That's my 2 cents.
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It would be idealistic to think they would act like angels and follow in their parents footsteps, but we all know that children have a mind of their own.  \n\nPreachers children "should act" just like anyone elses children do.  Some of them grow up seemingly without a hitch, so to speak.  While others rebel and stumble.\n\nThe congregation should realize this and try to be understanding of any unacceptable behavior.. just as they would of any of the other children at church.  Trying to FORCE them to act a certain way would only push them in the wrong direction.  Let your example guide the way.
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Many people can be accountable for actions taken by children. Ultimately, all people are responsible for their own actions. These children at school made a decision to treat this boy unkindly. Therefore, they are responsible for their actions. \n\nAs a young mother, I made some bad decisions with my children. Now that I am older, I see the fruits of my sin comeing forth in them. We go to church and we are all saved, but still some things come back to bite me. When they act in an immoral manner, I always talk to them and tell them why it was wrong. If it is something they learned by me, I explain that I was wrong in doing what I did back then. I ask their forgiveness and then from that point, once they learn that it is wrong, they are accountable for their own actions because now I have taught them a better way. \n\nOnce these children are chastened for their behavior, they should know that it is wrong and will be held accountable for what they do. There are several ways you can tell if someone knows whether or not they are sinning:\n\nAre they hiding what they do/did?\nDo they lie about it?\nDo they do it in a sneaky manner?\n\nAlso, just because someone is a preacher's kid, means nothing. That pastor could be doing all he can to teach his children correctly, but they fall into sin because it is fun for them. They could be rebelling against their father. There are so many things that can go wrong.
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Unfortunately, yes.  Good and Evil are human attributes, so an evil person is one of us, as much as we'd like to disown him.
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The possibility of evil existed.\n\nBecause evil (in the biblical sense) is transgressing the spirit or word of God's Law.\n\nThat's why there was a law in the first place, so the created beings would have a guideline for happiness and perfection.\n\nGreat question!
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I know, its not easy. try this. You place your eyes directly on the baby, then say "you evil baby" then turn aside.\n\nNot really. Baby's are not sinners. read this: "but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." mat. 19:14\n\nJesus means that we must be pure and Innocent as children to enter into the kingdom of God. We know sin cannot inherit heaven so it would be strange to say children have sin.
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I think you raise a good question.  I don't think parents would have a child if they thought the child would end up being tortured FOREVER!  I also don't think that God would create children if they risked that!  That is one reason I think the theory of hell is very off-base.
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poverty...which is the root of all evil
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sin is not what casts us into the pits of hell. A denial of God's undying mercy is what separates us from Him. Children are born selfish-- as they must be to survive. However, children are also born blessed by the Holy father. and that blessing is what keeps us close to him unless we ourselves choose to cast it away.