[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/what-makes-someone-a-good-person\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/what-makes-someone-a-good-person\/","headline":"What Makes a Person Good According to the Bible?","name":"What Makes a Person Good According to the Bible?","description":"As people who are accustomed to doing evil, God's power to transform us into good men is our only hope for change. God is the only One who can make a person good through Christ in a process known as conversion or new birth.","datePublished":"2023-09-26","dateModified":"2025-01-21","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/author\/pastero\/#Person","name":"Martin Kiogora","url":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/author\/pastero\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pr-martin-kiogora-1-jpg-150x150.webp","url":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pr-martin-kiogora-1-jpg-150x150.webp","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"The Deep Things of God","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-the-deep-things-of-god-logo-1.png","url":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-the-deep-things-of-god-logo-1.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/open-bible_1_4_34.webp","url":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/open-bible_1_4_34.webp","height":408,"width":544},"url":"https:\/\/www.thedeepthingsofgod.com\/what-makes-someone-a-good-person\/","about":["Daily Devotionals"],"wordCount":669,"articleBody":"Someone in a Christian social media group asked, \u201cWhat makes someone a good person according to the Bible?\u201d My response was as follows:Your question reminds me of Job 14:4, which states, \u201cWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.\u201d This verse conveys the impossibility of your pursuit or inquiry in a subtle manner. In our fallen and sinful state, we are not inherently good or clean, as Job puts it. It\u2019s impossible for us, in our own strength, to achieve \u201cgoodness\u201d because of our sinful nature.Actually, our fallen nature is predisposed to do the opposite of what is good. Paul declares, \u201cI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do\u201d (Rom. 7:15). This fallen sinful nature or state separates us from God from conception to death, as the Psalmist states in Psalm 51:5, \u201cBehold, I was born in iniquity, and my mother conceived me in sin.\u201d Psalm 58:3 emphasizes this point further: \u201cThe wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.\u201dIsaiah 59:2 also affirms this separation: \u201cBut your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.\u201dThe natural man, as the Apostle Paul stated, does not comprehend the things of God; to him, it\u2019s foolishness. He writes in 1 Corinthians 2:14: \u201cThe natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.\u201dIn Romans 7:24, Paul laments our misery and hopelessness in the face of sin: \u201cO wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?\u201d echoes our wretchedness and hopelessness.\u201dHowever, in the next verse, he thanks God for saving man from his current sinful state through Jesus Christ, our Lord (Romans 7:25): \u201cThanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.\u201dThe alienated man is reconciled to God through the sacrificial death of Christ (Colossians 1:20): \u201cand through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.\u201dWe are accustomed to doing evil, according to Jeremiah 13:23. He inquires, \u201cCan the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.\u201dAs people who are accustomed to doing evil, God\u2019s power to transform us into good men is our only hope for change.This is what Paul meant when he said, \u201cTherefore, if anyone\u00a0is\u00a0in Christ,\u00a0he is\u00a0a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.\u201d(2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)This transformative process is spoken of in the scriptures in terms like \u201ca new heart,\u201d \u201ca new birth,\u201d and \u201ca new creation,\u201d which in a real sense is conversion. It is this conversion that Jesus emphasized in His nightly meeting with Nicodemus in John 3:3: \u201cJesus answered him, \u2018Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'\u201dAs a result, the short answer to your question about what makes someone a good person according to the Bible is this: God is the only One who can make a person good through Christ in a process known as conversion or new birth.Feel free to ask Bible questions in the comment section below.You may have noticed that I don\u2019t run ads on this blog. This is because my goal is to provide my readers with an ad-free and clutter-free experience. If you find my work inspiring, please consider supporting my ministry through our Ko-fi page or by pressing the button below. 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