it's so simple

The debate.

Man is basically good.
vs.
Man is basically evil.

It's so simple. Just watch a toddler. They KNOW what "no" means. Everyone has shown them and told them the proper way to behave. But they still choose to disobey. They still choose to lick the shoe, to knock over the trash can, to hit their little brother.

No one has to teach a toddler how to be bad. We have to teach them how to be good.

Therein lies the rub. We are not basically good. But we KNOW goodness.

I wonder if that provokes in all the image it provokes in me. Somehow, though we are evil, we instinctively know goodness....and choose to disregard it.
(not to blatantly rip off a man named Clive, but...)
Sounds like we have something of our Creator in us. And we ignore it. And are in need of saving...
.....good thing He took care of that.