Rousseau said, "Man is by nature good, it is civilization tht ruins him." What does the Bible have to say about this? First of all, in the beginning when their were no sins on this world, man is good. In the book of Genesis (1:31) God have created the body of man pure and good; there was nothing inherently evil or sinful about it. But since after the fall of man (Adam and Eve) or the enter of sin, man is no longer pure or "good". According to the Bible, there's a difference between the flesh and the body. There are three meanings in the Scriptures: the flesh of ou physical body (John 6:55); the fallen or the corrupted body contaminated by sin (Romans 7:18); and the fallen man (Romans 3:20). God did not create fallen flesh. All things are created of good. It's when man fell, sin, the evil nature of Satan came into the man's body. Sin is the evil nature of Satan. We may even say that sin is Satan, because sin dwells in our body and because sin is the nature of Satan.
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