What is good?

Good. What is it? What makes one action good and another one evil? Why do we even have a concept of good and evil at all? These are questions that cannot be fully answered by the atheist/humanist crowd that, on one hand, believes in evolution but on the other, also that man can somehow be good without God.

But  the real answer to these questions can only come from an understanding of God and the absolute truth of the Bible. You see without a constant source of truth, then where does our understanding of "good" even come from? If, as they say, man is just an animal in a world of the survival of the fittest, then what is the basis of good and evil? What they call good come from their God-given conscience and from the Garden of Eden knowledge of good and evil. Without these factors then there is no good and their argument is void. We, as a nation, have gone so far away  from the basic principles of the Bible that our country was founded on that our citizens wrongly believe that we no longer need God to be good (a concept that they have from God). Christianity is the root of morality. Thomas Jefferson said it best in 1809 when he said "The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, God has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses." So not only can a person have real morality outside of Christianity, they wouldn't even know what good is, if not for God. Romans 3:10 tells us that "There is none righteous, no not one"and 3:23 "For all have sinned and, come short of the glory of God." but I am glad that God, in His ever  enduring mercy did not leave us there but He has made a way that we can be counted righteous and that is through the sacrifice that Jesus made by shedding His blood for us on the cross and dying for our sins. In the scope of eternity, good is not determined by our actions and our supposed morality, but by His blood only. Because He is the only good and in Him we are set free. You see, we cannot be good enough in ourselves to merit eternal life, but only by giving our lives to Him. Therefore.....

Good is: being a Christian!  

For a more in depth study on this subject of "good without God" check out:

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/can-we-be-good-without-god