I am preparing to write a little paper on this, and the premise is God is absolute Good, and Satan is absolute evil, and therefore humans are in a gradient and battle between the extremes. But here was my outline so far:
Absolute Moral Integrity:
1. No human on Earth has achieved it, although it has been the driving backbone of our religious and social order. Of course, Jesus Christ has made the claim, as his Father was witness, to have walked the walk of absolute integrity to God's moral requirements, even under extreme test; perfection.
Why Then, do we always fail?
1. Absolute Moral Integrity: It is quite a statement, a perfection.
2. Illusions: We have been self defeating, empowered by forms of the self, which are questionable.
Slow degradation social to individual moral
Our own definitions, justifications, and rationale, without a higher guide
Guidance from the higher guide is applied with the above, resulting in hypocrisies.
Pleasure: We compromise with a powerful power, and it's complexity touches all forms of it's manifestation
Histories of the pattern:
3. Pleasure Power Play: A very dynamic, driving force, influencing global, international, national, regional and local markets providing pleasures, which can easily morph into greed, and it's accompanying negatives.
What exactly is it? A big question, with big answers from 6 billion people.
Pride and pleasure
Social Pride and pleasure's symbology
The slow creeping killer built in.
Histories of the pattern
So yes, some people have achieved a good enough absolute moral integrity to go to heaven, etc. But this is of course colored by their own definitions, reinforced by social definitions of acceptability, ultimately related to a social structure on a global level, which is slowly but surely destroying the foundations of life on earth. Can that element, which relies on time to be identified, be trusted?
4. Conclusion: Environmental/Natural social infrastructure, the social architecture, we build, and are a product of (Jesus: "The world"). It's already lost, it's just a matter of linear time, and interaction of the whole, globally, which will eventually collapse into quite a disaster.
Implication: No one, or possibly very few are absolute evil, they are a gradient between good and bad. But a consistently growing, in number and power, human sub-elements, do use themselves and the designed mechanics, to do evil things, which plain and simple are easy to identify, especially when the evil damages you personally, and they are, basically:
The Ultimate Evidence, Answer, Action: Lost in a temporal function
Knowledge: Good and Evil
So some are putting it together and others are not. Why?
Economics: Empowered by being a profit generation catalyst, core. Sin is profitable, especially as a progressive "art", product and practice.
Advertising: It continues preaching it's way, at all levels of the social order: Religious, academics, media and entertainment, political, and militarily, it's all within the scope of the larger economic, the commercial element which ends up giving the hardest push.
So, how does relate to a "fairy tale" like the Garden of Eden? (Sarcasm implied, I believe the Edenic account has a foundation still seen in ALL of mankind)
1. Basic emotional framework in human kind.
Plotting (Inner Temptation inside and out)
Denial
Lies
Theft
Misery (Also a nice backdrop to play the Pleasure power off of)
Death
System Failure
System Self Destruction
Collateral Damage
2. Logical extensions: We all use the "technology", Eve's tool to you and I.
3. Hidden in plain sight by our own hearts.
We exacerbate the camouflage.
Without a higher guide, we band our own rukes.
With a higher guide, we bend our own rules.
It's a painful realization, the truth
4. Symptoms: The actuality is obvious.
Having already had GOOD in Eden, mankind can really only come to know Evil, as we struggle to define it through human laws, kingdoms, governments, etc. A real judgment fest, with a not so convenient nuclear gavel. Boom!