philfearon:
I have often come across people making references like "if not because of God...", they will grant another persons request or favour. In some other instances, God is used to beg people to do something they're supposed to do ordinarily.

This has got me wondering. Is it that people are inherently bad or just looking for an excuse to show that part of them once "God" is not part of the equation anymore?

A lot of people can't do anything for you without reference to God 'enabling' or 'allowing' them to do it. Everything they do is for the sake of God. This leads me to ask, is the fact that God is in your life the reason why you are being good?

Kobojunkie:
Is choosing to do God in obedience to God not what God called us to doing?

Aren't we told that our human kind of goodness is filthy rags where God is concerned so it doesn't seem to matter whether we are "good" by nature as what matters more seems to be that we are good because of God.

philfearon:

God didn't call anyone to do Good. Where did he make the call?

Secondly, which God?

Kobojunkie:
Good === Righteousness, the keys to Heaven itself - Matthew 24 vs 31-46.

The one and only God as written of in the book called the Bible.

philfearon:
There are many Gods mentioned in the Bible. Which of them are you referring to?

Kobojunkie:
In book is focused on just the one God. If you dont know which, then maybe you should have specified this from your OP.

philfearon:

The God used in the OP is generic. The one you are referring to is specific to 1 particular religion.

Kobojunkie:
Ok, my mistake then!

philfearon:

This has got me wondering. Is it that people are inherently bad or just looking for an excuse to show that part of them once "God" is not part of the equation anymore?

philfearon:

This leads me to ask, is the fact that God is in your life the reason why you are being good?

Dtruthspeaker:


Yes, they are inherently bad. Why? Because they now KNOW EVIL and can decide to do it.

And do people love doing evil? Yes, they do. You see it all around you and you often hear them confess their love for the sweetness of doing evil. "Ah e go sweet to fuq that man wife, you too dey happy make I ..."



Without God, Good can not be done exactly as without Microsoft Word, you would not be able to type on your laptop. Also, without God, we would be dead as a phone and car without its battery. "Cut off from me, ye shall do nothing".

This is the First Level of Answer.

Second Answer, is A child behaves as his Father, so if your father is Good, the Child shall be Good but if thy father is Cain, such children must be evil.

philfearon:

How did you know then that the God you are referring to is the source of your goodness?

philfearon:
I have often come across people making references like "if not because of God...", they will grant another persons request or favour. In some other instances, God is used to beg people to do something they're supposed to do ordinarily.

philfearon:
This has got me wondering.
Is it that people are inherently bad or just looking for an excuse to show that part of them once "God" is not part of the equation anymore?

philfearon:
A lot of people can't do anything for you without reference to God 'enabling' or 'allowing' them to do it. Everything they do is for the sake of God. This leads me to ask, is the fact that God is in your life the reason why you are being good?

https://uptownerd.com/2021/06/06/are-you-a-good-person-only-because-you-feel-like-god-is-watching-everything-we-do/

Dtruthspeaker:
Yes, they are inherently bad. Why? Because they now KNOW EVIL and can decide to do it.

And do people love doing evil? Yes, they do. You see it all around you and you often hear them confess their love for the sweetness of doing evil. "Ah e go sweet to fuq that man wife, you too dey happy make I ..."

Without God, Good can not be done exactly as without Microsoft Word, you would not be able to type on your laptop. Also, without God, we would be dead as a phone and car without its battery. "Cut off from me, ye shall do nothing".

This is the First Level of Answer.

Second Answer, is A child behaves as his Father, so if your father is Good, the Child shall be Good but if thy father is Cain, such children must be evil

philfearon:
How did you know then that the God you are referring to is the source of your goodness?

Dtruthspeaker:


Simple! When we were born into this world, what conduct and action did we meet and see was acceptable, world over, which if we comply with, we did
not get into troubles and problems?

Ans= The Doing of Good Things and Good Deed.

So Who made it so that world over, All men are compelled to openly do Good Deeds (while they sneak in hiding to do bad deeds hoping that they are not discovered)? Is there A Law Commanding and Compelling the Doing of Good Deeds?

And this is where the Bible Answers both Questions for
1) it Shows The Law of Laws Commanding the Doing of Good and

2) it disclosed The Who, Who Issued and gave forth such Law, Backing it up with World Wide Powerful Power and telling us He Who Did that, is called God!

It's as simple as that!

budaatum:
I try to do good because I have found that doing good profits me more than doing the ungood.

Take insulting people on here. Whenever I insult anyone I feel like I am burning in hell. A voice in my head says, "buda, surely you could have responded a lot more intelligently than that". So I start to hate myself for not being intelligent, and then I hate how unintelligent I feel, so gradually, I am teaching myself not to insult anyone so that I never feel bad. Besides, it is so much more satisfying to turn the other cheek to those who insult me and who might supposedly deserve to be insulted back because, first, its just a cyber slap that neither hurts my body nor my soul; and second, like a real slapper, their cyber hand gets tired before they hit the seven times seventieth slap especially if I caress their cheek with my soft intellectual hands, and nothing is more satisfying and enjoyable than defeating hatred with love is what I have found.

If I do bad, like say I steal for instance, I would have to look over my shoulder to ensure I am not caught, and while looking over my shoulder I would not see where I am going and would likely walk into a pole or fall into a ditch, and how silly of me that would indeed be.

If I steal I would have to tell lies too, and then would I also have to keep track of the lies I've told to whom, which all takes up a lot of brain power and my time, which eventually becomes stress as I'm constantly looking over my shoulder instead of where I am going, and have to remind myself which lie I might have told to whom in case I mix up lies and get found out to be a liar, and in the process and all along, I would have ignorantly been stealing from myself because all the brain resource being used to maintain a lie could have been used to advance my own self and make myself a better human being, but I stupidly would have been stealing that brain resource from myself and wasted it on lying because I stole! How much more stupid than that could I possibly be! Why not just not steal nor lie and instead use all that resource to work for what I want? I'd sure delight in the rewards of expending the sweat of my brow, with my integrity intact to boot!

Na, its not some God that stops me doing bad. Its the brain that God put in my head and gave me the strenght to develop that makes me try very very hard to only do that which is good and to reap the profit in so doing.

Its like a person who sows corn reaps corn and a person who sows cocoa reaps cocoa, a person who sows the ungood reaps the ungood that they sow, and so buda sows good so buda reaps a peaceful mind.

Do note! buda is a work in progress.

philfearon:

But, no one is compelled to do good anywhere...

philfearon:

People are expected to obey the law of the land for easy interactions with the rest of the society.

philfearon:

What is good in Country A may not be good for Country B. What is good for me may not be good for you.

philfearon:

That notwithstanding, how did you know that the God you are talking about is the Source of your goodness?

philfearon:


This is a wonderful explanation bro. I like the fact that you could tabulate the "doing good" process and the struggles you surmount in doing them. It shows you are the one who is making the effort to be good while reminding yourself that you could easily fall back astray if you don't make an effort to keep yourself in check.

philfearon:
I have often come across people making references like "if not because of God...", they will grant another persons request or favour. In some other instances, God is used to beg people to do something they're supposed to do ordinarily.

This has got me wondering. Is it that people are inherently bad or just looking for an excuse to show that part of them once "God" is not part of the equation anymore?

A lot of people can't do anything for you without reference to God 'enabling' or 'allowing' them to do it. Everything they do is for the sake of God. This leads me to ask, is the fact that God is in your life the reason why you are being good?

https://uptownerd.com/2021/06/06/are-you-a-good-person-only-because-you-feel-like-god-is-watching-everything-we-do/