What does it mean to be innocent?

Question

Is anyone innocent? How do we know who is good and bad? How can we trust another?

Answer 1

Dear friend,

Being innocent is being natural.
living your life with mind and heart. being true to yourself.
helping others and gaining true joy,forgivness,love,
doing everything that your mind and soul says good and does not harm you and/or others keeping in mind that GOD sees everything you do.
Well have you ever noticed that small kids, new born babies dont know anythig no language,no words, still by their actions they give us joy no harm ,just love we feel about them ,whthere they are known or unknown to us. right?
well these babies does not know that we will harm them or what we will do with them. yet they are happy and makes us happy with true feelings.
well Thats Innocence.

have innocence, keep smiling,
have wonderful life
raj

Answer 2

About the only innocent people in the world are babies and they are totally innocent and trusting. To imagine someone would harm an innocent child is horrifying.

There are a lot of good, decent, innocent people; yet everyone has characteristics that are unfavorable at times. We can only trust people we've know for much of our lives, like our families and friends we've grown up with. We know them well and know if we can or cannot trust them.

Unfortunately, we have to have blind trust, say in our banking system, 401 K plan, whatever we order to eat.........all this can be taken away or we could be violated by whoever prepares our food. So, since we've been so lucky to have lived thus far, we should not worry about these things and stick with the people we know for trust and confidence.

Answer 3

To be innocent means to be without guilt. The gate is small and the path is narrow that leads to live, and few are there that follow it. (Jesus)

You are not supposed to "trust" another, you are supposed to love the "other" as yourself. Do you trust yourself? Do you love yourself? Do you want others to love and trust you?

To be innocent one has to willingly act out of love.

Jews, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sihks and others have been taught that to love God, our Creator, with their whole being and above all "things" and to think and act with compassion and forgiveness toward their fellow (wo)men is the right way (path) for any person to live and achieve inner PEACE (innocence).

According to those wisdoms killing, or even hating and judging, is Not an option. (Someone should tell G.W. Bush! He claims to be a Christian! or others who claim to kill in the name of "religion".)

Just imagine! If all Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sihks and Jews would willingly (not because they have been told) act out of compassion toward the "others" (as they were taught!) there truly would be peace on Earth!

As someone put it: " Love (I don't mean sex) is the answer - whatever the question".

Answer 4

None are innocent except for Jesus Christ himself. We are all sinners. As a Christian, you know good from bad by two main things. If the person's belief is based on Biblical truth or has it been altered. Secondly, is the person's actions comparable to what comes out of their mouth? Example, they claim they are Christian, yet have horrible language, cheat on spouse, cheat friends, steal, lie,etc., you get it. That is a deep perspective from a Christian view. I suppose for another religion, the same would hold true. Of course, there is no getting around the fact that as for myself, I wouldn't believe another religion, but that wouldn't mean that a person who is say, a Muslim, who was really nice, had real good morals, etc., wasn't a decent person, but in my eyes, unless they have Jesus Christ leading their life, they wouldn't likely make to heaven, maybe only nice enough for earthly standards. That is where it gets deep, my thoughts look at good and bad in a non-earthly standard.

Answer 5

for me(my opinion, that is), innocence is when u see everything as it is. without any prior knowledge, background or experience, regardless if it's good or bad about everything that is and everyone that are.

innocence is when u don't know any hate, greed, anger, doubt and etc. about a thing or person. innocence is when u don't know NOTHING. everything u see is exciting. new. clear. and most importantly, pure. u don't know any pain or suffering and etc.

that is my thought on innocence. where u value anything or anyone because u see them/it just as they are.

Answer 6

According to scrippture all have sinned and falen short of the glory of God. None are good not one. Jesus was the only man witout sin all of the rest of us are sinners dependant on him for our salvation. You should put your trust absolute trust in god and not man although you can trust the differences that God makes in a man but no man is perfect and absolute trust should be in God . For this reason it is necesary to have a personal relationship with God and to know him for yourself.

Answer 7

It means no harm was meant. Watch and learn. That's why it's called trust.

Answer 8

Well....... a newborn baby is presumed to be innocent .... I hope anyway

Answer 9

The Bible says:

The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

We are all born into sin. This is true for all of us. Only Christ can cure sin.

Answer 10

Trust is earned and not assumed.