All people have a relationship with God. For some, He is their father, and for others, they are His enemies.

Even so, morality requires a standard to judge by. I’m not saying that people can’t be moral apart from God. I’m saying that no objective standard of morality can exist apart from God. The result would mean that morality would be nothing more than personal opinion, making the concept of morality arbitrary and ultimately irrational.

We tend to view morality as a single standard for right behavior and tell others when we think they are acting against that standard. We judge them to be wrong, evil, or immoral for violating that standard. However, if God and His objective, unchanging, and universal moral standard that is based on God’s very character did not exist, it wouldn’t make sense to view morality as an objective and universal truth that all people were accountable to.

We would have no basis for condemning anything or anyone simply because they weren’t acting in accordance to our personal opinion. The response to any personal moral indignity would be, “So what? That’s just your opinion.”

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In christians scenario, it's like saying B.C., there were NO good moral people.

The Christian view is that what constitutes moral goodness is that which confirms to God’ moral law. That law is the reflection of Gods very character, so that standard has always existed even prior to the 10 commandments being given to Moses or Christ’s ministry. This moral law has been written in the hearts of all mankind since we are created in God’s image, which is why we instinctively know right from wrong even if we haven’t been exposed to biblical teaching.

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Indigenous people didn't/don't know of christ yet, were/are some very good moral people.

See above for why.

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Because you now know of god and yet turn away and not accept him, you are a sinner and cannot be moral?

I don't accept that pretense or understand that thought process.

Just doesn't work for me.

Signed, Simpleton.

All are sinners, whether we know God or not. It’s precisely why Jesus died in the cross.

People act “morally” because we were created as moral creatures. Our sinful natures distort that moral aspect and we sin. We do what we know we shouldn’t and we don’t do what we know we should. We even sear our consciences by purposeful rebellion so that we aren’t even convicted by our sin any longer. Even so, we are all accountable to God for our disobedience and need to repent of our sins and look to Christ for forgiveness.

Without God’s perfect moral standard, everyone can be considered “moral” as long as they have their own personal standard for right and wrong. Hitler was a very moral guy in that way since he did what he thought was morally right in his view. Because that view turns morality to mere personal preference, it essentially nullifies all meaning for moral goodness.