Why were we born knowing right from wrong?

Answer 1

Because you were made in the image of God.

Answer 2

We was not born knowing the difference. We was taught right from wrong.
A child can not lie when asked a question. It is the adults who tech the child to lie.

Answer 3

In the early days, man did not know right from wrong, and so he did as he saw fit. when a Man would sin, his whole family would pay the price for that sin. God changed that by putting it in every mans heart to know when he sined. Now every one is responsible for his own sins. We all have to repent of only our sins.

Answer 4

No. Like other things we learn it as we develop.

Developmental psychologists have a number of models of how moral sense develops, but most of us go through stages of deriving morals from authority, then from peers, then from abstract cognitive processes once our brains start becoming capable of those in adolescence. Kohlberg and Piaget are worth looking up if you're interested, eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development

The process however has an element of hardwiring from our genes which provide a "recipe" for how our brains develop in early life.

Answer 5

Because God gave everyone a conscious.

And now many need to USE that conscious and realize that sin is serious! I mean, people must know when they are doing wrong right?
Because God has given them a conscious. Why did He do this?
So we would know right from wrong--- so we can see the seriousness of sin- and realize we need forgiveness! And we can only be forgiven through Jesus Christ. Amen!

Answer 6

we aren't

Morals are simple social and parental conditioning from the CULTURE. Right and wrong is not always the same in cultures. It is NOT universal. Read Pavlov and BF Skinner. It can explain a lot.

Answer 7

we weren't born knowing right from wrong, we were taught that or it came later with age and experience

Answer 8

Every child born is a gift from God, they are innocent and pure and are born with Faith. They are born without hatred, without prejudice, and every child is born with Blind Faith in Jesus Christ. They can't take care of themselves but they are born with Blind Faith that they will be taken care of.
Mattew 18: 2 - 6
2 - Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them,
3 - and said, "Assuredly, I say to You , unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 - "Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 - "Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
6 - "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Children learn sin from the world of the flesh (non believers) and children keep their blind faith when they are raised with the Holy Spirit of the Lord (raised believing in Jesus and the Bible).

GOD BLESS! AMEN! SHALOM!

Answer 9

i don't believe we were born knowing it, i believe we were taught it. And may we thank what every higher power we believe in for blessing us with the people who taught it and hopefully by also setting the examples.

Answer 10

An infant thinks only of its own needs, hungry, tired, messed its diaper, sick etc. We aren't born with this knowledge we are educated into it later on.

Answer 11

We weren't. If you spend your first six years watching someone kick a cow the first thing you're going to do when you're let out is kick a cow, and that is wrong