by Anonymous03 on June 28th, 2008

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Do you believe that people are naturally good or bad? My grandmother believes good, my mother, having been raised to think that everyone is good, has been heartbroken repeatedly and therefore thinks that people are bad and will take advantage of you so..

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  • by Lakely on June 29th, 2008

    Lakely

    We are children of God, so at their deepest core... everyone is good. And that is why we feel some hint of guilt when we do something bad. Deep inside, we know it is wrong.

    So, with this in mind, the role of spiritual life is to magnify that which is good in us, and release that which is bad.... and that is called "increasing the light" More on increasing the light here, if you are interested: http://gospelenigma.com

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  • I think except for some rare cases people choose whether to be good or bad. This is assuming they know the difference and have been taught what good is.

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  • by BigDaddyBS on June 29th, 2008

    BigDaddyBS

    It's not so black and white... There's a LOT of gray in there.

    There are people who are bad... Brought up badly, abused, single-parent who couldn't/wouldn't raise them right, etc. Not all of THEM are "lost causes" - They just don't KNOW how to act, in many cases.

    There are people who are good... "Raised right", they know right from wrong, and always lean toward the right (correct) thing to do. And not all of THEM are "angels".

    There are those in between... probably the vast majority of people... They know what's right and wrong... Some prefer to do wrong, though they can have "a heart of gold" toward certain people/things.
    Depending on how they are raised, many DO NOT have "people skills", and don't know when they are treating people as badly as that person sees it.

  • by thatsJustme on June 29th, 2008

    thatsJustme

    there is not a baby on this earth that was born bad...it is kinda of like the profiling they do to pit bulls or even guns....babies, baby pit bulls, or even guns are bad ..bad parents parents and bad people people ...yes, bad people and bad experiences with them cause us to not trust people....it is sad....but i too have always thought to look at a person deeper before I think that...it is not easy nowadays...but i am glad i am this way....I would not want to live like that,"always looking for the bad in every person i met," I know a person that is that CYNICAL....he has gotten better though..cause I told him I would RATHER be me than him....
    genetics is alot but the BIGGEST is the way we are RAISED ...it starts at home.....
    drlaura.com....if you won't listen to God, maybe you will Dr. Laura.....
    Moses,was the most HUMBLE and MEEK man on earth...

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  • by Moosemose on June 29th, 2008

    Moosemose

    Ur Mother is Correct & here's the Doctrine on it. Enjoy! John

    DOCTRINE OF HUMAN GOOD

    A. Definition and Description.
    1. Human good must never be confused with morality or the legitimate
    production of the believer. Human good is the production of the believer in
    the cosmic system. Therefore, human good is not valid in God's eyes. Human
    good is the production of evil.
    2. Human good is the result of function inside the cosmic system. It
    is often a reaction, e.g., helping someone because you dislike a person who
    wasn't helping that person, or showing someone how much better you are by
    your Christian production. People often give because they are unhappy. The
    believer performing human good can be motivated by any one of the gates of
    cosmic one or cosmic two.
    3. Human good is characterized by fanaticism and arrogant
    concentration without doctrinal inculcation. Fanatics produce human good.
    4. There are three classifications of human good.
    a. From the believer living in the cosmic system.
    b. Human good of establishment orientation. This is really not
    human good, but establishment good. An example is the unbeliever who joins
    the military.
    c. Human good of the unbeliever registered in the Book of Works.
    5. Human good is a reference to anything produced by man apart from
    grace provision. Anything God provides in grace for production becomes
    divine good. Human good and divine good are antithetical and mutually
    exclusive.
    6. Knowledge of human good and evil is not needed for a relationship
    with God, Gen 2:17.

    B. Because human good originates inside the cosmic system, it becomes dead
    to God, Heb 6:1.
    The arrogant believer's Christian service is dead works. All
    production while inside the cosmic system is dead works. The momentum of
    gate 1 interlocking with gate 4 of the divine dynasphere avoids the problem
    of dead works. Legitimate Christian production performed outside the divine
    dynasphere is dead works. You cannot advance spiritually until you change
    your mind about human good.

    C. Human good related to the cosmic system results in boasting, Eph 2:8-9;
    Rom 4:2. If you were saved by works, you would have cause for boasting in
    the cosmic system, but in the divine dynasphere. Man is stimulated into
    pseudo-happiness by boasting of his production.

    D. Human good produced from the cosmic system is never acceptable to God,
    Isa 64:6. "All our righteous deeds are like menstrual rags." The person in
    the cosmic system is like a woman who is ceremonially unclean and the human
    good is like her menstrual rags, totally unrighteous. "And all of us [in
    the cosmic system] wither like a leaf; and our perversities are like the
    wind; and they blow us away."

    E. Human good will not provide salvation, Tit 3:5.
    "Not by works of righteousness which we have done." The person in the
    cosmic system contends that faith is not enough for salvation. Whole
    denominations are built on living one's life inside the cosmic system and
    performing human good. 2 Tim 1:9, "Not according to our works, but
    according to His predetermined plan, even grace."

    F. Human good has no place in the plan of God, 1 Cor 13:1-3.
    Human good is the product of the cosmic system, the power of Satan, the
    production of the arrogance of Satan. Therefore, anything related to the
    cosmic system is outside the plan of God. Human good can only become divine
    good when it is performed inside the divine dynasphere.

    G. There is a legitimate function of human good, i.e., establishment good.
    1. This is open to both the believer and unbeliever. It is based on
    the function of humility. An unbeliever can produce an acceptable human
    good rewardable only in time by the function in humility under the laws of
    divine establishment. The unbeliever can function in gates 3 and 6 of the
    divine dynasphere: humility and impersonal love. Eccl 9:9 teaches that the
    unbeliever can be happy in his job and marriage. Therefore, he can have
    limited blessing by having his right woman/man and genuine humility. God
    blesses anyone who obeys the laws of divine establishment.
    2. This human good is produced inside the divine dynasphere under the
    laws of divine establishment. This is the only blessing the unbeliever can
    have in time. Once he enters the cosmic system, that blessing is no longer
    there. So it is possible for the unbeliever to be blessed by God even while
    the believer in the cosmic system is under discipline.
    3. This establishment human good is based on the principle that
    organizational humility plus enforced humility equals genuine humility.
    Genuine humility produces a human good totally apart from the cosmic system,
    Rom 13:1-7.

    H. The Judgment of Illegitimate Human Good.
    1. Human good is judged for believers after each of their three
    respective resurrections. For Church Age believers, it is judged at the end
    of the Church Age at the Judgment Seat of Christ, Rom 14:10; 2 Cor 5:10.
    The believer's human good is evaluated and burned. In 1 Cor 13:1-3, Paul
    gives an example of human good. If he speaks in tongues, and yet is in the
    cosmic system, then the use of the gift has no spiritual content and the use
    becomes nothing more than human good. "I am nothing." A nothing produces
    human good. Martyrdom is human good outside the cosmic system.
    2. Human good is judged for unbelievers at the end of the Millennium
    at the Great White Throne. Human good is the basis of their indictment, Rev
    20:12-15. Establishment good establishes no credit with God for the
    unbeliever at the Great White Throne judgment.
    3. 1 Cor 3:11-16 teaches the principle of the rejection of human good.
    Believers who produce human good suffer loss of reward.

    I. The source of human good is the area of strength of the old sin nature.
    1. All human good in history will be judged because it comes from the
    same source as sin, i.e., the old sin nature.
    2. Human good was not judged on the cross so that it could continue
    along with evil as the issue in the angelic conflict. Therefore, it was
    rejected at the cross.
    3. Human good continues because Satan still rules until the Second
    Advent. It will continue in the Millennium to prove that its source is the
    old sin nature and not the presence of Satan.
    4. Human good is totally divorced from the integrity of God.
    Therefore, it never accomplishes what it seeks to accomplish. It never
    fulfills its objectives of improving anything.
    5. Man had relationship with the integrity of God in the garden
    through creation. Human good couldn't improve perfect environment. The
    first test was: since you cannot improve perfect environment, if you learn
    "good" by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will
    attempt to perform good. Therefore, you will blaspheme against God, reject
    His authority, and produce evil.
    6. Human good is the worst enemy of humanity. It destroys our
    prosperity and is the greatest enslaver of people.
    7. Some people say that respectability means relationship with God.
    This is a lie and evil. Respectability is a means of higher hypocrisy in
    humans. You cannot be respectable and have an old sin nature. You can have
    poise. Respectable people aren't necessarily establishment people. The
    first evil man ever performed was his attempt to become respectable by
    putting on clothes.
    

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