That's the main reason why Christians are abjured to condemn only deeds -- sins -- and not the persons who commit them -- sinners. It all holds together nicely, if we remember to retain our humility.
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Fallen, being in the state of disobeying God and having the nature to disobey God, is no different from evil.
Lets start by defining evil. Evil is "morally wrong or bad" according to websters. Sin, disobeying God, is morally wrong and bad. Sinners, those who commit sin, are committing moral wrongness. They are morally wrong as they are fulfilling their nature to disobey God.
The bible says all have sinned. Therefore all are morally wrong. All man is evil. And left to ourselves we are beyond redemption. We cannot save ourselves.
Fortunately Jesus draws all men unto Himself and by his blood washes away our sin nature.
(I don't have the time to add in the scriptural proof of this. Perhaps another day)
GSA(P)
This is exactly the opposite of what Christianity teaches. It is virtually impossible for man to recover from the fallen state apart from Christ. "All of our righteousness is a filthy rags." We are powerless, apart from Christ.
The Bible deems us 'desperately wicked,' not just 'fallen'--which does not imply, by any stretch, that we can right ourselves.
Care to weigh in, Mom?
While we are splitting hairs:
G-d created man "very good." Man is fallen, but the reason "fallen" is a problem is because it causes men to be evil, twisted, improper, perverse, whatever word you want to use. The results are that every imagination of man is evil continually (Genesis 6:5). True, this was a resultant state not a created state, but it is still our state without the influence of G-d in our lives and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.
The difficulty is that evil men can accomplish good things also. But their hearts are still evil until regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
Shalom.