Is Humanity Inherently Evil? | The Story of God

I’ve come to meet Baptists Reverend and
theologian cutter Calloway to find out
whether original sin means we are all
evil at heart pleasure to meet you thank
you have a seat
thank you a which book were you reading
the first few chapters of Genesis that
is exactly what I want to talk about and
what I want to talk about is sin what is
original sin well it’s a good question
the Christian tradition kind of coined
original sin and some primal desire that
we all have that’s a very basic human
urge or impulse because Adam sent that
original sin was passed on from one
generation to the next
perpetuated generation after generation
after generation I have recently spent
some time with a person who we could say
personifies evil and you just said why
did you do these things and he would say
that just got like I’m not beyond that I
don’t know now
that’s inherent evil wouldn’t it what
you saw you could name that as a sort of
demonic thing this is demonic it’s
demonic but I think it’s important for
us to acknowledge that that there is a
little bit of him in all of us there’s
something inherent in us that seems to
bend itself towards death and violence
is there a devil or is that just a
metaphor uh it is a metaphor uh and also
the devil is real
you