Fallen men apart from regeneration can do good, good from a horizontal point of view. They can even know there’s a God and even His law. In fact, many non-Christians would put believers to shame by their good deeds and conducts! But here’s the problem: when we focus on the goodness of man we have a tendency to shape God after our own image, “If I’m this good, loving and forgiving toward my child and others, then how much more it is with God who is love and merciful!” We end up pulling God down to our level, forgetting that God is not like us, “You thought that I was altogether like you; but I will rebuke you…” (
"No matter what Christianity has taught me throughout my life about my heart being desperately wicked... I know this is not true. My heart is really big and full of love. The same love we think Jesus had for those who he is said to have died for, selfless devotion, this is something that I think we all carry for people we love. The hate for this world and hate of this life is against everything I knew intuitively as a child, though Christian theology tried to tell me otherwise."
Measuring the True Condition of our Hearts
"No matter what Christianity has taught me throughout my life about my heart being desperately wicked... I know this is not true. My heart is really big and full of love. The same love we think Jesus had for those who he is said to have died for, selfless devotion, this is something that I think we all carry for people we love. The hate for this world and hate of this life is against everything I knew intuitively as a child, though Christian theology tried to tell me otherwise."
https://www.monergism.com/reformation-theology/blog/measuring-true-condition-our-hearts