The taint of original sin, doesn’t make us evil, but it tempts us to do evil and all of us at times, give in to that temptation. The self is inherently good, but it is tainted, and that taint tempts us, and we obey the temptation.

St Augustine said that the self needs to be inherently good, or else we wouldn’t be able to sin. The reason why he said this was because in order for something to have a defect, that something is supposed to ordinarily operate in a way that is good. Blindness is called a defect, because ordinarily the eye is suppose to see… the hand or the foot cannot see, but it is not called defective though… but if the eye is blind it is called defective because it is supposed to see. Similarly, a person who commits a sin, can only do so if ordinarily she is supposed to do good.

Wisdom 1:14 For he created all things that they might exist, and the generative forces of the world are wholesome, and there is no destructive poison in them; and the dominion of Hades is not on earth.

God Bless,