2007-04-30 09:17:32 · 19 answers · asked by carl j 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's actually easy to be good if you have a good heart.
If you don't, train it.
2007-04-30 09:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul writes in the New Testament, "...the spirit is willing, yet the flesh is so weak." Your question is nothing new and the answer is simple; we have sinful hearts and minds and even though we want to do good it is part of our sinful nature to be disobedient to God and rebelious. Besides, if being good wasn't easy we wouldn't appreciate it the way we do when we accomplish something good. Food for thought.
2007-04-30 16:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Mike O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easy to be bad cause one feel they can get away with it and the one that has a hard problem being good cause the bad won't let them have peace in their endeavor.
2007-04-30 16:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being "bad" is giving in to your nature as a human being and that's easy because you get to do whatever you want. Being good is hard because you are rejecting that human nature and trying to live more like God. God is perfect. Humans, by nature, are not.
2007-04-30 16:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born with the 'sinful nature' inherited down through the generations, all the way from Adam! The Bible tells us that, SIN and DEATH are the the results of He (Adams) rebellion against God, and that his descendant will inherit a sinful, rebellious nature from Adam!!!
The sinfulness of man does not consist solely of the voluntary sins which we commits; for these are the fruits of our corrupt nature. Empirically, we observe daily that sin abounds in us; but the Scriptures tell to us that the situation is infinitely more desperate than we could ever have realized. Man's sin is not only what he does––which we can see––but what he is, which we cannot see as God sees it. All this pain, death and suffering because of ONE man's SIN(rebellion against God)!!!
2007-04-30 16:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Old Truth Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it easy to be bad because when you being bad you think people think it cool but its not they will just look you an face and say ha ha but being good it not hard if you us e to be good to people that will be no problem and it will not be hard
2007-04-30 16:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by rebecca m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Good takes a strength of character to stand up for what you believe in though no one else does. Being bad takes no work or character at all.
2007-04-30 16:22:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because being bad is actually being good. We are doing the things we WANT to do and things we have in our human nature, why should we get punished for doing these things.
2007-04-30 16:22:24 · answer #8 · answered by chase.casey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it's really, really hard to be good at being bad
2007-04-30 16:20:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being "bad" is no easier than being "good". The problem is that things that are "bad" usually come with instant pleasure. While the "good" usually has slower benefits.
" Anything worth having is worth waiting for."
"Anything worth having is worth working for.
2007-04-30 16:33:02 · answer #10 · answered by Connie D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...if it makes you feel any better, Paul, the great apostle, made this statement..."the good I would do, I do not. The evil I would not do, I do". We are sinners, and prone to sin. That's why it's so hard.
But take heart, Jesus has overcome sin and death. And we are in very good company.
2007-04-30 16:22:20 · answer #11 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋