Follow up to that previous thought.

I talked about the postmodern belief that we as humans have no sin nature. We are naturally good, and only our environment makes us bad. I talked about how I believe we are naturally evil, and our sin nature is something that each one of us must deal with in our lives.

I have a few more thoughts about this idea though. Mainly, one idea. Postmodernists who believe that mankind is good, are not bad people. (Of course they are bad in the sense of the whole sin nature... but in the sense that their values might not be as far off as we think.) They still value good above evil. They value love and good works. They want mankind to do right (whatever their conception of right is at least). However, they believe that man can do this by themselves. They want to take the easy way out and say that it is something we do naturally. They have been blinded to the fact that we cannot fully love. We cannot completely rid ourselves of selfishness. They believe that if didn't just have that dang environment, we'd be in a utopia. They want this utopia to happen. They want good for mankind.... they just take the easy way out. They make excuses. They are on the right track, but still far off from the goal. But, by seeing it this way, we can at least have a platform, in the form of some common values or some inherent human desire, to begin dialog with them. Keep this in mind when talking to all your post modern friends. Or if you plan on traveling to Europe and staying in hostels in order to chat with this exact people group. Yay, I finally have some useful things to say to past, present, and future YHMers!