Is it our nature to be good or evil? Why is disobedience so easy? We get a little knowledge and we have pride; we discover a natural law and can heal some diseases, we no longer need God; we can replace organs and found remedies to many sicknesses and we replace science and medicine along with technology with God. We begin to question with cosmology whether or not God exists. We feel we have the right to choose and this choice depends on the person choosing.
God says, “I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight,” (Isaiah 66:4). This message is true today as it was at the time Isaiah stated it. God is passionately concerned about us. We humans are bent on doing evil. God wants all of us to be with Him in heaven. But the waywardness in Genesis is seen daily. Pride and disobedience.
Again in Ezekiel 18:23, 31-32, God asks, “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked? … Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies… Therefore, repent and live.” God truly wants all of us to be saved and have eternal life with Him.
But our hearts are so evil and tend easily to sin rather than to do good. Pop-psychology likes to say that everyone is basically good. That is our nature; but the Bible tells us differently.