Recently one of the people I am involved with through work committed a horrific crime towards another client, under the influence of alcohol with several witnesses there. He faces a long prison sentence. I have interviewed someone who was later convicted of a murder and sentenced to many years in prison. I regularly see people who have served sentences including murderers. Society as a whole sets these people apart as criminals, but how different are they from everyone else? A lot of people who use drink and drugs regularly end up doing bad things because the liberation these things give enables the baser side to take control. Even if actual crimes do not take place people get tipped into a crisis world where things they have done when non compus mentis affect them for ever.
We all have a "bad" side, a sinful side no-one is worthy no-one is good. I guess that some of us stay away from the things that are going to cause a manifestation of our badness to a watching world, that does not make us good. I believe that the only goodness we can have is imparted by God and it is offered to all, the controlled or the addict. In Jesus we have redemption through his blood.
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