What Kind Of Nature Are We Born With?

What kind of nature are we born with?  Could a person be healed after being crippled for 38 years and then betray the one who healed him?  What could be worse than being crippled and unable to stand for 38 years?  Does continued sinning lead to separation from God and hell? The following account tells us.  

John 5 ISV

1Later on, there was anothera festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesdab in Hebrew. It has five colonnades, 3and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting for the movement of the water.c 4At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.d

5One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I don’t have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me.”

8Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” 9The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

10So the Jewish leaderse told the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

11But he answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

12They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”

13But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

14Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 

15The man went off and told the Jewish leadersf that it was Jesus who had made him well. 

16So the Jewish leadersg began persecuting Jesus,h because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.