"8. Idea of God not innate.-If any idea can be imagined innate, the idea of God may, of all others, for many reasons, be thought so; since it is hard to conceive how there should be innate moral principles without an innate idea of a Deity..."
I been trying to put into words what this means for most of spring break now and I think I finally got it. The word innate means that you are born with natural talent or you inheret something at birth.
What Locke says is that if God was born (or created) without all of his inheret power, nothing else can be created innate.
I think Locke believes this because since God is what started it all, he had to have been given the powers to create everything. If not then, who would he learn it from? So by saying that God isn't innate, means we could never be since humans never have the same powers of God.
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