A new brain imaging study by Josh Greene and Joe Paxton at Harvard University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that what separates the well-behaved from the poorly-behaved might not be the ability to control your temptations but rather what kind of temptations you have.
The study looked at two hypothesis, one in which will is used to suppress the temptation to lie or cheat, and the other where grace was the reason they didn’t.
It’s all very interesting stuff, not the least their finding that demonstrate the human capacity to, at least temporarily, achieve a state of “moral grace” – a state devoid of selfish temptation. I take it there’s no devil then, yes?
