Was chatting with Ica.. we were discussing Goong. Nice and funny drama =) So much like fullhouse. Thankss lin for burning the dvd, Chae-gyung really bright up my days ^^ I said that I like Hyorin, that I would prefer to date the elegant Hyorin but will choose to end up marrying the kind and clumsy Chae-gyung =D But she said that Hyorin was kinda evil.
And we end up discussing whether people are born evil or good. Some people believe that no one is evil. Maybe by believing so, we can safely say that we ourselves are not evil, basically. But I choose to believe that we are born with instinct to be evil, we are a slave to that instinct. Ultimately we are born with sin and sinful desire. Kids learn to lie and to be jealous, even if no one teach them to do so. That was why there is this verse in the bible that said "what I want to do I never do, what I don't want to do I do", something like that. As much as we want to be good, we often give up and choose the dark path.
And when we grow up, it got even worse. You see.. almost no one really believe that he is evil, that he is bad. Even when he admit that he is evil, he does that with belief that his evilness has reasons, some reasons that he believe justify his actions. Some people even believe that he is being evil because it's cool. For whatever reason, almost no one believe that there is something wrong with him.
But I guess that's where God comes to play. If you ask those who are now Christians, many of them would tell you that there was this moment when they just realised how bad they were and that they need forgiveness. It's not something you can explain logically. That thought and revelation just occured. And they eventually encountered God who is the only one who can forgive them and set them free.
Then there are some who live decent life but they would tell you that there was this moment when they realised that there was this emptiness in them that they could never fill, no matter what achievement they have gotten, no matter how many good deeds they have in the record. All the same, they came to encounter God and find that missing piece. Again, you can never explain this logically.
I like the saying by C.S. Lewis which was quoted by the preacher last Sunday, I don't remember the exact quote but it's something like this
"If I find out that there is a part in me which can never be satisfied by anything there is in this world, then the most likely explanation is that I am not of this world"
And we end up discussing whether people are born evil or good. Some people believe that no one is evil. Maybe by believing so, we can safely say that we ourselves are not evil, basically. But I choose to believe that we are born with instinct to be evil, we are a slave to that instinct. Ultimately we are born with sin and sinful desire. Kids learn to lie and to be jealous, even if no one teach them to do so. That was why there is this verse in the bible that said "what I want to do I never do, what I don't want to do I do", something like that. As much as we want to be good, we often give up and choose the dark path.
And when we grow up, it got even worse. You see.. almost no one really believe that he is evil, that he is bad. Even when he admit that he is evil, he does that with belief that his evilness has reasons, some reasons that he believe justify his actions. Some people even believe that he is being evil because it's cool. For whatever reason, almost no one believe that there is something wrong with him.
But I guess that's where God comes to play. If you ask those who are now Christians, many of them would tell you that there was this moment when they just realised how bad they were and that they need forgiveness. It's not something you can explain logically. That thought and revelation just occured. And they eventually encountered God who is the only one who can forgive them and set them free.
Then there are some who live decent life but they would tell you that there was this moment when they realised that there was this emptiness in them that they could never fill, no matter what achievement they have gotten, no matter how many good deeds they have in the record. All the same, they came to encounter God and find that missing piece. Again, you can never explain this logically.
I like the saying by C.S. Lewis which was quoted by the preacher last Sunday, I don't remember the exact quote but it's something like this
"If I find out that there is a part in me which can never be satisfied by anything there is in this world, then the most likely explanation is that I am not of this world"
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