[numberonepal]

Still there are individual differences...

I agree, but children are born evil. They have to be taught good.

[little jeremiah]

I wouldn’t say born 100% evil by any means. Each is different.

[greeneyes]

children are born evil.
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I don’t agree. Children are not born evil or good. They are born relatively helpless and innocent. They have to be taught for sure and some are traumatized and carefully taught evil.

The children that I’ve had experience with were all naturally empathetic, and helpful little people-and it didn’t take a heck of a lot of teaching. So I don’t think they are all born evil.

[Biblical Calvinist]

numberonepal,

Jonathan Edwards said.. regarding little children; “They are not innocent in God’s sight, but are young vipers!”

(Jonathan Edwards, “Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England” 1742)

Edwards is generally thought to be the greatest theologian in America prior to the Revolutionary War. He was also the first President of Princeton. He is still very well respected even today. While Edwards was a Congregationalist minister; he was actually soteriologically Reformed. (Augustinian)

“Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.” Ephesians 2:3