Is Man Good?

I think Solomon answered it perfectly. “Man was made upright, but he sought out many devices.”

The chapter of Genesis, “God saw all that He created, and He said, “It is Good.”

But, then you have that verse in Genesis also, that God repented of making man, and was sorrowed that He created us.

So… is humanity inherently good? The answer to that is God created us good, but our hearts are led astray by the deception of worldly gain, and factionism, and covetousness, and when God destroyed the Earth with the flood—some people say that was out of line—but all archeological evidence, shows these people were nuts. They were decorating their houses with human remains, and using blood as an ingredient in paint, and if any remnants of Egypt are shown, they also probably did necrophilia and other gross and abnormal things. And there was probably anarchy, too.

So, God was just in destroying the world.

Then you may say, “Well God told Israel to destroy Canaan.” Well, again… Canaanites, all those sins listed in Deuteronomy, they did. They ate their own babies, they had sex with animals, they murdered and raped with impunity their neighbors… so God used Israel to destroy them. As that was their religion, was practicing gross and evil things.

So… during Rome and Greece, men had sex with children, they had full blown sex on stages with actors, they murdered people on stages, they had people kill each other in gladiatorial arenas, at the end they had emperors changing their gender through gender operations, and were marrying their horses… that same emperor I’m thinking about managed to kill a host of party guests with rose petals of all things.

So… is humanity good? You decide. This doesn’t look good.

And when Humans made their first laws, there’s some argument to be made that God had a hand in it, that He directly inspired Abraham and in Mesopotamia we see the Torah some of its laws there in the codexes. And of course we have the Stone Tablet written by God’s hand, and we have Christ Jesus giving us divine statutes when He came in the Flesh, and He lived an example for us to follow, and knowing we couldn’t, He died on a Roman Cross and raised, so we could accomplish what little we could with His grace.

So, I’d say aspects of Confucianism were inspired by artefacts of the original Abrahamic Faith, which you find remnants and traces in China excerpts from the book of Genesis. And also references to their stories in their written characters.

So, I’d say God is very real. And God gave us direct command and spoke through His prophets, and twice gave us direct guidance in the form of the Ten Commandments and of course Christ Himself taught and lived.

So, I’d say man has potential to be good. Like Solomon said, man was made upright, but he sought out many sinful things.