In Reply to: if you are capable of that posted by lydia on April 14, 2004 at 13:15:59:
then one observer could also say about the capacity to do good, that it is inherent to human beings and what human beings do it naturally or by instinct. Wouldn't that make it a matter of perspectives?
What I am trying to say here is that some people start their whole foundation by asserting the evil of humanity, others assert the goodness of humanity and yet others say that humans are born with no good-evil structures at all but we learn all from society.
Some Christians have adopted the theology that humans "need" salvation (If I remember correctly, Catholicism teaches that children are born with sin but baptism cleans them and then for the next few years they are innocent - or saved - until being about 7 years old).