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Why did Edwards contend that the natural man cannot be truly moral in his actions?
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EDWARDS CONTENDS THAT PEOPLE ARE MORAL TO A CERTAIN POINT BUT THEIR SINS VITIATES THEIR MORALITY. NO MAN EVER DOES ANYTHING BUT WRONG. THE WICKED ARE CHILDREN OF HELL. THEY SIN, AND THEY ONLY DO SIN.
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Natural man does what is negatively and comparatively right, or avoid things more wrong.
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Edwards preached that natural man is totally lacking in the spirit of God so that even if he does “good works” they are actually “bad good works” because they are done with a love for God and a love for his fellow man. In other words, it means nothing as far as being moral because only God can be moral in and through His creation. These acts may “look good on the outside but the inward principle, an aim which is as it were the soul of the act and is what God looks at and which the rule does chiefly regard, it is altogether wrong/”
