I'm not a bad person, I just do bad things...
I heard someone say this today, and it made me think. I don't know if I fully agree with that view point.
I believe that what we do is a manifestation of something bigger, something more along the lines of who we are. What we do is a statement of what we believe. I belive that who we are is defined by what we belive and what we belive decides alot of what we do. Yes, we can be pursuaded by outside circumstances and yes who we are is often changed by that but the root of it all is still our own system of beliefs. For me, God and his Word defines who I am...or it should. My desire is that my will would be matched with his, but it's not complete yet...at all!! I don't know, but just hearing someone say that today really made me think...what do you think???
I wanna know.
~Whitney
posted by Whitney at 2:25 PM
3 Comments:
I'm thinking...
that both or really none of you are right. the truth is to me that it depends. because I've realized something, and that is that EVERYTHING is relative. except, of course, for us the one standard set thing that isn't would be God, or tangibly, the Bible. so the definitions of bad people or bad things are probably different between you, this other person, and myself.
personally... hmmm... I would probably define 'bad things' as sin. and since everyone sins, its really a matter of whether the person is good or bad. you could argue that everyone is inherently 'bad', in which case this statement would be false. but if there are 'good' people in the world... in other words, if good people sin, then what he said is true. it all depends on how you look at it I guess.
-Aaron
3:07 PM
God takes people who accept his forgiveness and transforms them completely... the old has gone, and the new has arrived (as per Paul in the NT). And so, of course, we're all bad people until God gets ahold of us.
The clincher is that when God changes us through Jesus' sacrifice, he changes our fundamental makeup as a person. We are no longer messed up sinners, we have been made saintly and spotless in His sight.
So I guess if you want to label people as "good" and "bad," you could assign these value terms to states of spiritual redemption. But then again, people are a part of God's creation, and as He created it, all things were called "good." So run with that one.
11:51 PM
I really like to think about how God's will is done in everybodies lives, but even better is that his will is perfect and works for the good of thos that love the Lord. What we do defineS what we believe about God and who he is, if you read through Heb. 11 you will see people who's lives where patterned by what they believed. My prayer too is may my will be lost in yours Father.
Arron truth depends only on the bible, because Jerimiah say's the heart is decietful and wicked above all things. So we must let God be true and men a liar. A correct view of man and his sinfulness help us to have a correct view of God's holiness, love and mercy.
12:43 AM
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