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Thanks for being here. This week we're talking about are people born good or are people born

sinful? I believe that is the greatest chasm in our culture.

Most people think, even most Christians think,

that people are born essentially good.

And I'm here to suggest that you need to pick one of those.

And depending on which one you pick,

your worldview will go in entirely different directions.

Yesterday we talked about crime.

If you think that people are born sinful, then someone commits a crime and you're like, yeah, of course.

Of course people commit crimes.

People are sinful.

What do we do about it?

We punish them.

But if you think that people are born good, then someone commits a crime. Well, something went wrong. Something went horribly wrong. What's to blame? What's to blame for it? Poverty is to blame. Oh, there's not enough job opportunities. Oh, it's oppression. Oh, is it? Oh, okay. What do we do with the person? Now that they committed the girl. Oh, well, we need to tap into their good heart. We need to

help them connect with their inner child. Help them find the goodness within their true selves.

See the difference?

So depending on where you end up on that issue,

if you show me someone who believes in like all this prison reform stuff,

I guarantee you they think that people are born good.

Like that's where that comes from.

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