So I had a conversation with a friend today about whether people are generally GOOD or BAD. We have different faith backgrounds, so we tend to look at a topic from differing perspectives. I am totally cool with it! Hope you are too.
I think this is an important question, because it seems that your response will have a huge impact on how you live your life (your worldview).
I see three possible responses:
- People are generally GOOD.
- People are generally BAD.
- I don't care. It doesn't matter.
The "people are generally GOOD" crowd are either:
- God-worshipers who believe that God is pleased with good works and rewards people whose good works outweighs bad deeds.
- Karma-counters who believe that good deeds are repaid with good deeds.
- Atheist who seek the general good of other people.
The "people are generally BAD" crowd seems to only have one position:
Because people are bad, then God needs to step in and fix the problem of sin (the badness).
I think that the rest of people typically do not care or don't believe the questions is important because of one of the following:
- They do not believe in God.
- They doubt the goodness of God.
- They feel to overwhelmed by the burdens of life to worry about "afterlife."
- They believe that what we perceive as being a physical world is only processes occurring in our brain. Basically, good and bad are not real, because nothing is real.
What do you think?
Did I miss a category?
Look forward to the responses.