Are humans good or evil?

Question

why?

Answer 1

I think good but with bad influences.

Answer 2

humans operate based on the laws of physics. The laws of physics do not have a moral orientation.

Answer 3

Humanity is moving towards being more divine ... more like God ... like Jesus.

Homo sapiens sapiens (through evolution) are given the choice to remain more animistic or to become more human/Divine and strive towards the good of all of humanity including all life on the planet.

Answer 4

When a baby is born, he or she is pure and free from all sins.  but where and how he grow's up can effect that. but we human still have limited power to do both good and evil .  

Answer 5

Humans are basically evil (against the ideas of God).

We have to WORK HARD to be good.

Answer 6

Were sinful the degree of which determines if we are evil

tGod bless

Answer 7

Both.

Answer 8

Both. Humans have the potential for either good or bad.  

Answer 9

There is no good but God, and those He makes righteous in His grace

thus, man is inherently evil

Answer 10

Jesus says none are good, not one. The word good, in all the sense of the word means no flaws. Are you sinless? No one is. Therefore we're bad in one way or another. We've all done and will do bad things. So how is that good? Let me know what you think.

Answer 11

They are both. Because we invented the words, to describe ourselves.

Answer 12

good and evil are personally and culturally subjective ideas about what types of behavior are socially acceptable.

morals are a learned behvior and thus humans are born amoral.

Answer 13

Each person is given a conscience (Light of Christ) that will guide them to do good.  But because of agency they can ignore and not follow the inner director.

Answer 14

Humans are basically chimps with furniture, but in a few hundred thousand years we may start living up to our potential.

Answer 15

First you have to be introduced to the concept of good and evil to become one of them.  

Then you have to clearly define them.  Since we can view history and there is no definitive of evil, there is no way to state someone meets these requirements.

Edit:  The person above me, starofsong, is obviously very evil.

Answer 16

Neither. The idea of good or evil has been created by societies to describe actions by their members or nonmembers, as either (seemingly) beneficial to the society or harmful to the society.

The taliban rule saw music and entertainment, especially from the west, as evil, because their society considered evil anything that distracts people from focusing on their god. Here we love music and entertainment, and think of people who dont as evil.

Its all subjective.

Answer 17

They are whatever they choose to be

Answer 18

Good and evil are subjective.  Good to one person is evil to another.  

Answer 19

People are what they choose to be.

Answer 20

"Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is."

Answer 21

neither, we are just what we are

a natural animal with instincts, society puts words that describe some of these instincts as good , bad and evil etc, but there is a reason and an explanation behind all we do, its not as simple as he is evil she is good

as good people can do bad things

and bad peopel can do good things

Answer 22

Neither; being one implies a complete lack of the other. We all have good and both.

Answer 23

Everyone of us is a sinner.  All the good deeds in the world can't pay for even one sin.

Either Jesus pays for your sins, or you pay for them in eternal torment in h**l.  That is the choice before you.  Jesus loves you, so believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ and be saved.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is this: The truth is that the only way to be saved and to get into heaven and avoid being sent to eternal h**l is by believing in faith alone that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe this and you are saved!

Please pray now: "Jesus, please forgive me of my sins. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and You rose from the dead. Thank You for eternal life!" You will be in heaven with Him forever when you die. :)

Answer 24

Evil

Romans 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God

Committing a single sin makes a person evil, even if he has done 1000 good works.  

Answer 25

Before we were on earth we were souls floating around in the rays of godliness and we were put here on earth for one reason to penetrate the darkness and out of darkness find true light

Answer 26

evil

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Romans 3:11-12  no one understands; no one seeks for God.

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.

Romans 3:23-25  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Answer 27

Some are good, some are evil. I think most of us are both.  

Answer 28

Basically evil, unless they are born again Christians.  Humans of a whole are selfish, temperamental and will do anything that it takes to arrive at an established goal.  This can be turned into a good trait, if we let the Holy Ghost lead and guide.

Answer 29

humans sin and do sometimes evil things, but we also do good things. if we look at our lives we could say good out weights evil, but in time of war evil out weights good. i guess it depends on the time we live in, but if we look at history of man and the bible we can see that evil outweights good. good according to the bible is a much harder thing to achieve

Answer 30

Humans can do the most amazing beautiful things but humans can do the most foul things imaginable, the world revolves on balance

Answer 31

Neither. A human may choose to DO good or evil, they are not  restricted to either one or the other.