Why do people do evil things?

 Why can’t we all just do good all the time? What is there that’s keeping us from doing good instead of bad? I think the Bible answers this best.

“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” - Ephesians 2:1-3

If we’re dead to our sin, then we can’t get out of it. We can’t do anything but sin. So then how can Christians do good things? Well Paul speaks about this later in the chapter:

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—”