Re: Jewish & wondering about Jesus

If we have an innate knowledge of right and wrong. Why do some religous people kill not only other people, but them selves also, believing they are doing right?

innate:
1. Possessed at birth; inborn.
2. Possessed as an essential characteristic; inherent.
3. Of or produced by the mind rather than learned through experience: an innate knowledge of right and wrong.

How can you program out innate? "doing right"

I say that most people know right from wrong.
I say that we have an innate desire to do right and wrong.

Let's look at what James Allen "As A Man Thinketh" has to say.

" Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts....

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intellligently culivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must amd will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

Do weeds grow naturally?

The question is why do we do wrong?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12

That's why we do worng.

What can we do to battle spiritual wickedness?



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