Is there scripture to support that the likeness of God is gone from man?
Familial resemblance. . . Jesus said, "You are of your father, the Devil" to a group of Pharisees.
Yes.. I know people who have very bad tempers and short fuzzes and they will go off at their kids of even the most minor infraction... Later on they genuinely regret their hot hotheadedness and wish they where more level headed and calm when dealing with their kids...So, evil people can love and do good.
He said this so that they would turn back. Christ is not saying that the Devil created them, but that they are acting as if he had.
Still no mention of God's image being taken away.
Forgive me...
God created Satan. Does Satan bear God's image? Neither do fallen men.
non sequitur and offers no evidence.
Angels are the uncreated.
Forgive me...
Angels are the uncreated? Is this EO doctrine?
Even Orthodoxwiki knows that Satan is uncreated. (Laugh doggoneit!)
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Are People Basically Good or Basically Evil?
I think looking at it this simply can lead to some miss understandings. If God created people to be basically evil then I think we have a problem. Here is a video that explains why God must be good and how he can only create good. Evil comes from twisting good things. Not from a evil itself.
Are humans twisted?
I think we have the ability to twist good. Does that mean we ARE twisted? No? I think it means we have free will. I guess the question is, from birth, do we have a propensity to twist good into evil or are we more inclined to just aim for good.
God tells us this about man and evil, and nothing has changed since that ancient time.People are instriscially oriented toward the good. People that believe otherwise are projecting some form of psychological abuse or perverted religious indoctrination. It was this belief that justified so many of the evils of modern times such as slavery, libertarianism and the twisted sociology of Hobbes, Hume, Locke Rousseau, et al.
If you take five seconds to distance yourself from the idea that you should convince a person they are worthless unless they believe as you do, you'll see the abusive and twisted nature of this type of thinking.
Are People Basically Good or Basically Evil?
I think it means we have free will.
The fact we can be twisted means we are basically sinful. In God's standards, we are evil, not just naughty, because sin corrupts so badly we can't go to Heaven. That's why Jesus washes away our sins with his blood and water. It makes us comparably good compared to what we were before, but it doesn't mean our goodness originates from within us. Our goodness comes from the Holy Spirit, who lives within us, or to put it less incoherently, our goodness comes from within but it isn't fully ours yet.
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