Can an action actually be wrong if you were born predisposed to commit that action?

There's a certain action that some people commit today that some people say is wrong and some other people say isn't. Sometimes people actually say, "Well, I was born this way." What they're trying to get at is, "Well, it can't be wrong. I'm acting out how I was born." They might not say, "How I was created," but instead “how I came into this world.” "I'm predisposed to this certain behavior.” You may know the behavior I'm talking about. It's pride. Aren't some people predisposed to pride? Aren't some people seemingly born feeling prideful? If you look at a small child, do they have any problem putting themselves first when they're given that opportunity? No, they don't.

What we see is, often every person struggles with pride in varying amounts and in varying ways, and it's not really an age factor. It's not a Christian/non-Christian factor. Everyone struggles with a me-centered perspective on life and how they live. In fact, this does seem to be how we come into the world - we prioritize ourselves over other people. Does that make this right? No, it doesn't. Does this come from within? Is pride something I feel and then act out? Is it a desire or an impulse I experience and then my actions follow? Yes it is.

Now, pride probably isn't the type of behavior that you were expecting me to state when I started down this trail, because often what's said is, "I have same-sex attraction. I'm gay, and that it’s okay because I was born this way." Well, the born-this-way argument proves far too much, because, it assumes that what is natural is moral. It implies that if you were born with a certain set of desires well then no one can tell you those are wrong. But if we're consistent, what about the person who's born and from their earliest age has had murderous, violent impulses? Does that mean it's okay for that person to be violent and murder other people? No. Some people really struggle with violence, and anger. Anger is something that comes out of us. No one really sits down and says, "I'm gonna choose to be angry right now. Does that make anger good because it just innately flows out of us? No.

Is pride good because we never choose to feel pride it just happens to us and we express that? No. That doesn't mean that's good either. In the same way, lust, heterosexual lust even, comes naturally out of us. Does that make it good? No. What we can't do as Christians, and even as non-Christians, is have a standard that says, "What is natural is moral; if you are born a certain way then that means you can act out whatever that set of desires is that you're claiming you are born with," because we wouldn't say that with people who are attracted to children, right? We wouldn't say that with pedophiles. If you're born and you're attracted to young children from the earliest age you can remember does that mean it's okay for you to act on that desire with young children? No, it doesn't.

This type of argument and reasoning shouldn't be compelling to the non-Christian. It shouldn't be compelling to the Christian either. This standard cannot be consistently applied. It can't be applied to the prideful, or the angry person, or the violent person, or the same-sex attracted person. We can't have a standard that says, "If I have this innate desire then it must be okay."

This leads us to consider: are our desires fallen? What I mean by fallen is: affected by sin. We need to go to scripture for this and see what scripture says about our innate desires, our innate feelings. Jeremiah 17:9 comes to mind when I think on this topic. It says that

The human heart (or another translation might say mind) is more deceitful than anything else. It's incurably bad. Who …