Born Good and Punishing Crime

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, "And it is the failure to recognize this that is responsible for this modern disastrous notion.” He wrote about the broken culture in the 60's. I can't imagine what he would say about today, but WHAT is responsible for the chaos of then and now? The misdiagnosis of man's heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Goal Group and Public Square
0:08.6	App. This week, we're talking about the importance of understanding the difference between
0:14.2	two very completely drastic worldviews, and that is, one says you're born good, and the other
0:20.1	says you are born sinful. And if you good, and the other says you are born
0:20.9	sinful. And if you believe one or the other, you are going to go in totally different directions
0:24.6	with your life, and you're going to go in very different directions with your political policies as
0:30.3	well. We'll just pick one here. If you believe people are born good, if that is your worldview,
0:36.4	and by the way, yesterday we talked to all about what the Bible says, you're not born good. If that is your worldview, and by the way, yesterday, we talked
0:38.1	to all about what the Bible says you're not born good, not at all. But if you believe we are,
0:44.3	this changes how you view crime and punishment. For all of human history, the belief was
0:50.2	that people are sinful and they commit sins and there's no way to control that other than to
0:56.2	say you can't do these bad things and then people some people will still do them and then we said okay
1:01.6	well if you do those things again then we are going to punish you in various ways that's been
1:08.7	the worldview we've had the idea that you are a sinner and you're committing
1:13.6	sins and these sins are harming people and society at large. The modern worldview says,
1:20.5	no, no, no, no, everyone's born good. Even that murderer over there. Everyone's good deep down. That's what Nancy Pelosi said of
1:32.6	MS-13 gang members. Trump did a press conference thing and he called them monsters. And
1:37.7	Nancy Pelosi said, no, no, everyone has a spark of divinity inside of them. This is the root foundation that leads people to say we need to abolish prisons.
1:48.2	We have to have more psychologists and no more punishments at all.
1:52.5	Because deep down every prisoner is essentially a good man.
1:56.7	We just need to build up his goodness with self-esteem.
2:00.9	We've got to draw that goodness out.
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