Does God really think all people are born wicked?

Question

why did he make us so we'd all be so wicked?
didn't he make us in HIS image? does that mean that HE's wicked? i just don't understand...

think / know
semantics; you know what i mean. can you answer the question..?

I meant the God of the bible.. silly of me, pardon my assumption!

1saintofGod
see first of the additional details, please

Answer 1

Like you, (and as logic would dictate,) I believe that the concept of original sin is flawed. I believe that Biblical evidence supporting such a claim is insufficient.

God did create us in his image, and we are not inherently evil. That said, we will all make mistakes... we'll all sin. What is important about life is that we learn from those mistakes, repent of our sins, and improve ourselves as we progress through life.

Answer 2

Black is white. Up is down. Left is Right.

There. My answer made as much sense as those provided by the Christians. You see, God knows the beginning from the end. He knew when he created the world how it would turn out. There must have been some state of reality in which there was God, but there wasn't anything like humanity. At that point, God, knowing how it would all turn out, set the whole mess into motion. To suggest that it isn't God's purpose that everything turn out exactly like it has is just folly.

Answer 3

I don't believe in a God of judgment because I don't believe that an Infinite can think comparatively. How could he think theirs any difference between someone who is mentally retarded and someone who is an accomplished Harvard professor because God is both. To compare there has to be "otherness." You sow what you reap and that means that it's up to you if you are wicked or not. But he is not anything but all of us, which I think is love. If you follow that law then, you are under his law, if you follow the law of the wicked, then you will struggle to learn the law.

Answer 4

You need to read the Bible a little bit. You're not going to get good answers from this bunch. :-)

God made people with the ability to choose whether or not to follow him. They chose not to obey God. Since that time we have inherited that "sin nature" that makes us "desperately wicked" according to the Bible.

God didn't want it to be that way, but he also didn't want to create robots that just always did what he said. So he gave us the ability to choose and we blew it. That doesn't mean he's evil.

Answer 5

Who ever told you this is horrible. Why do you think Jesus died on the cross for us? So he can save us. If God made us to be wicked we all would be ugly and go to hell. What I am trying to say is no way!
Read the Bible if you really want to know

Answer 6

After God made man and all of His creation His assessment was "It was very good."
Evil came into the world when man believed the lie that God was not truly interested in his highest good and rebelled against God by disobeying His command.
Adam lost his relationship with God the day he sinned.
That is why God said "in the day you eat of the fruit (which he was commanded not to eat) you shall surely die."
Adam did not die physically that day, but he died spiritually, because he lost his relationship with God, the uncreated eternal Life.
As a result, all of Adam's descendants are born with a natural inclination towards selfishness and rebellion. This is the doctrine of original sin.
God's solution is that he sent His Son from heaven to die on the cross as the representative of the race of Adam, bearing all the punishment due to all men so that all could be forgiven. He also took upon Himself the nature of sin which inclines us to stubborn self-will and rebellion. He put it all to death on the cross, was buried, and then raised from the dead, an eternal life giving Spirit, never to die again. He shares this new resurrected life with all who put their faith in Him. Receiving this new life is what the Bible calls being "born again".
This is what makes us right with God, receiving the gift of forgiveness and the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus. After that we can say with Jesus; "I delight to do your will, O my God, your law is within my heart."

Answer 7

God does not think, he knows males and females are born wicked. We are all creations of his, but we are not all his children. I forget how my pastor states it. We are children of his by creation but we only become a child of his thru the new birth. Man is desperately wicked. All you have to do is to look at the morning paper, listen to the news on radio and TV, and wittiness, the evils of life personally done to someone else by people or groups of people.

Any wonder then they Jesus had to come and die for us?

Answer 8

this is one of the questions i had when i was in my searching phase...i could not find an answer and to be honest the answers i got were not sufficient...people kept telling me "god doesn't make people wicked...the devil does" that type of excusing behavior is not acceptable...no one wants to take responsibility for their own behavior anymore and they think if they blame it on god/devil they are okay...it's not...i don't believe there is a god who makes us wicked or good...i think people are just wicked or good...on their own merit and there is no reason in the world except that is what that person desires to be...what makes them feel good...and some people really get off on being cruel...there is no god in that...even when they are using his/her name

Answer 9

I'm sure that wickedness is a part of his nature, as are love and forgiveness. We are not little robots he put here. We have free will to decide whether to be wicked, or not. It seems that we get on together better when we do not chose wickedness.

Answer 10

nobody is "made wicked" rather some people become wicked..some people are born evil...their soul is evil and corrupt from the first earth age....we are made in God and the angels' image..."Let US/Elohim/God and the angels make man in our/elohim image" some of the angels are wicked and many of them fell in the first earth age and followed satan and rebelled against God...some of those souls are indeed born wicked....because of what they did before this age...before they entered the womb...get it?