92. No One Can Refrain from Evils as Being Sins So as to Turn Away from Them Inwardly Except by Battles Against Them
Everyone knows, from the Word and from doctrine drawn from the Word, that a person’s inherent character from birth is evil, and that as a result he is led by an inborn urge to love evils and to be carried away into them, so as to want to take revenge, for example, to defraud, to defame, and to commit adultery. And if he does not think these are sins and on that account resist them, he does them whenever the occasion offers and his reputation does not suffer a loss of honor or material gain. Moreover, if the person has no religion, he does them with delight.
