(1) "Good" exists in itself.
(2) "Good" is knowable in itself.
(3) "Good" is do-able by oneself.
These three premises are antithetical to Christian
monotheistic understanding and the gospel of grace.
Christianity denies (1) the independent, autonomous self-
existent "good;" (2) the self-determined, self-defined, self-
discernment of "good" by an alleged independent-self of
autonomous man; (3) the self-actuating ability of this
alleged independent-self, autonomous man, to generate his
own "good" behavior.
There is no "natural goodness" which becomes the basis
of a "natural morality" within a "natural theology." "There
is none good, no not one" (Rom. 3:12). "No one is good,
except God alone" (Luke 18:19). When mankind thinks that
he can know "good" and define "good" from his own
perspective alone, he ends up calling "evil good, and good
evil" (Isa. 5:20), and Isaiah pronounces a woe upon those
who are thus "wise in their own eyes, and clever in their
own sight" (Isa. 5:21).
The so-called "good" intentions of prevailing
moralizers allegedly acting for the "good" of the whole,
simply create moralities and ethics based on their fallen and