Lucifer is called "The Prince of the Power of the Air," in the New Testament.  Suffice to say, we all have something inside us that lets us know evil when we see it.  And you choose what you do.  Right or wrong.  And you know within yourself when you choose to do something that is wrong.  Let me ramble for a moment, and I will get back to that point.

My husband taught Sociology on a college campus after he retired from the Marine Corps.  He used to walk into the classroom on the first day and start his lecture thus:  "There is one fundamental question that affects the way you think about everything else in your life.  That question is: 'Do you believe there is a God'?  What you 'think about God' will determine what you think about everything else."  And then he added, "I will not argue the point about the existence of God, but it's only fair to tell you that I believe that He is, and it will affect every thing that I say this semester about human interaction (Sociology)."

One of the things he said struck me as outrageous.  "Human beings have no instincts."  But based on the scientific definition of the word "Instinct,"  which is:  "A genetically transferred pattern of behavior that when stimulated will present itself full blown.  It is not learned and occurs without exception in the species," then it is true that humans have no instincts.  (But I believe that they have one, and will discuss that tomorrow.)

One example of an instinct is the migration of the Monarch butterfly.  A Monarch breeds in S. America, flies North to lay eggs and then dies.  The eggs hatch, and the next generation returns to the same place in South American where they were conceived.  They instinctively know where to go.  No one teaches them; their parents are dead.  That is an instinct--it presents itself full-blown and without exception in the Monarch butterfly species.

The reason this is important is that if a behavior is instinctive, then God can's hold you accountable for that behavior.