The Sinner's Need of God part 1

Are we innately good who just happen to turn bad when we do something bad, or we innately bad and need help to be good?  We read and see in our world,that when someone who appears to be a good person,  suddenly do something that is so bad, that it shocks the community, and should I dare say the world. What has gone wrong, especially when people come forward in defense of some of these individuals and recall their upbringing and their education, which should have been a safe guard against anything that is "bad". Let us take a journey into a world that many would dare not venture because of this notion" it just can't be true", especially when it cuts across all that we have been taught and what society holds to be true.


Man was originally endowed with noble powers and a well-balanced mind. He was perfect in his being, and in harmony with God. But through disobedience, his powers were perverted, and selfishness took the place of love ( Genesis 2 & 3 ). His nature became so weakened through transgression that it was impossible for him, in his own strength, to resist the power of evil. He was made captive by Satan( the real enemy), and would have remained so forever had not God specially interposed. It was the tempter's purpose to thwart the divine plan in man's creation, and fill the earth with woe and desolation. And he would point to all this evil as the result of God's work in creating man.