any thoughts on the fact that the JPS Tanakh translates Bereshit 8:21 as: "...since the devisings of man's mind are evil from his youth"... are we inherently evil?
What word is used for youth though? Youth usually is used to indicate about one's teenage years, at least in most translations I've seen from Hebrew (variation on the word Na'ar)- a much different thing from being born evil. If someone is going to be called evil at any point, somewhere around 14 or 15 is about the time I'd pick, and that would fit perfectly, especially for one's mental functions. From there, maybe the presumption is once bad, always bad? Yet clearly, there are some pretty darn good people in Tanakh... I should look up that verse in the Hebrew.
Yeah, I checked: the word is "ne'urav", same root, and all the other instances of that root that I know do not mean early childhood at all, let alone birth.
So then man is inherently evil from the time he develops his sex drive? Sounds Catholic to me. Or is man inherently evil because of his youthful immaturity?
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Yeah, I checked: the word is "ne'urav", same root, and all the other instances of that root that I know do not mean early childhood at all, let alone birth.
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