They Spiked The Water

You know that debate that stills goes on...atleast I think it does. That debate that started in freshman bible class when the teacher asks if we are born with a sinful nature or if we are just born into a sinful nature and gradually circle the drain. Basically if we are born perfect or if we are born sinful. Many people have their opinions and I of course have my own. I believe that people are born into a world filled with evil and are influenced into a sinful nature. I do not believe that we are born sinful though. I believe that we were born with minds like that of Adam and Eve before the fall. We were born without knowledge of good and evil and for about 6 seconds after exiting the womb we are bathed in fire. It sounds like I'm saying humans are horrible and I'm not...the reference of being bathed in fire is that we are hit hard by things in the world. It's like Jack said in Meet the Fockers, "Babies are like sponges Greg, little jack is absorbing every move you make...so don't mess him up Focker." We absorb everything going on in the world as soon as we enter it so it is like being bathed in a fire of information...and that is when our perfect nature starts to become imperfect. Upon exiting the womb we head over to the "Baggage Claim" and get our personalities. Scientists might argue that personalities have to do with a balance of hormones and blahdie blahdie blah. But to keep it simple I see a personality as the traits that the child has been around. The child picks those traits up and portrays them throughout his or her life. So now that we are developing our personality we head out the doors and call a cab to take us home. We start growing fast from that point...walking...talking...eating...school...the whole shabang. We start asking mommy what is the difference between a boy and a girl. What does this do? And my favorite, where do babies come from? At this point our knowledge of good and evil is very vast and we now understand that it is our choice whether to do good or evil. That is where temptation comes into play. The way I fight any kind of temptation is I hang onto the thought that the fruits that I will reap if I resist the temptation will be far greater than that of those if I give in. This blog was a completely random one but it was something that I have been thinking about and I never really knew what I thought of the debate so I figured if I blogged about it then I would come to understand where it is that I stand. This blog is in fact an in-complete thought and maybe sometime I will finish it.