Good?

At the very end of the Wednesday night Bible study a question was raised on whether someone who doesn't believe in God could love Him. This reflects our cultural conditioning in secular humanism which claims that people are inherently good, and that their environment or circumstances causes them to act otherwise. In fact, the most common response I receive from people to whom I am presenting the gospel is "I'm good." This is a totally anti Biblical position. Psalm 51:4 indicates that we are born in sin. In Mark 10,a man refers to Jesus as "good teacher." Jesus responds in verse 18, "Why do you call Me good? There is none good except God." In Romans 3 beginning with verse 10, Paul quotes from Psalm 14:1-3. "There is none good, no not one. No one understands, no one seeks for God. They have all turned aside..." Only the righteousness of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30) working through the Holy Spirit can make anyone good. Thank God for His grace and mercy!