[ArGee]

In the worldly view, man is inherently good and evil arises when we are not allowed to achieve our natural goodness.

I've heard this before and I have a nagging question. I'm not claiming you believe this, but maybe you've heard the answer.

If people are basically good, and society is made up of people, and society keeps people from achieving their natural goodness, what screwed society up in the first place? What mucked up the system?

[PeterPrinciple]

but maybe you’ve heard the answer.

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Danged if I know how their minds think. But once you acknowledge there is good and evil, you have to ask where it comes from. It takes some thinking. But once you blame something like guns, Christians, etc, you don’t have to think about it anymore, you decided (and there is that tree of the knowledge of good and evil again)

[stuartcr]

Perhaps when God created us, He left the concept of good and evil up to us, and that’s why it appears to change with time. Maybe there is no good or evil for God, maybe just reality (what a concept).

[MayflowerMadam]

“In the worldly view, man is inherently good”

Yes; in the wordly view. In the Christian view, men are inherently evil due to original sin (Adam’s sin); we are born lost and sinful and “achieve good-ness” (salvation) by accepting Christ in a personal (not technical) way.