Inherent Evil?

…In the view of Judaism, there is no sin in itself; there is only man’s sin. The sin of the individual….Yet Judaism is not silent about what is mere human, it does not seek to conceal the deficiencies of man’s nature.   Again and again it repeats that all life is a lagging: it speaks of temptation, ‘the evil inclination’ (Genesis 6:5; 8:21) … It knows of the habits, the ways of evil. …But it does not accept the view the evil is necessarily inherent in human nature; it knows no inherited or original sin.  The word ‘sin’ is for Judaism a word of Judgment about human action rather than a description of fate.  Man, who can choose for or against God, creates the sin and thereby assumes responsibility for it.  He is the victim of his own deeds.”  -Conservative Judaism, Fall 1986