I was riding in my car with a really wise friend today. Technically, I wasn't riding with her in my car. I was driving my car and she was along for the ride, but that's beside the point. That's just useless information I'm writing down to fill a word quota that I've unconciously demanded of myself. And so was that last sentence.

We were talking about goodness.
Like...
what is goodness?

How is it that everyone is capable of doing good?
Isn't it suprising that a nonchristian is capable of doing good?

Personally, I don't find that suprising. I'm sure, however, that there are a lot of people out there in the world who would argue that nonchristians aren't capable of doing good.

But if nonchristians are capable of doing good, is good really attached to God? In other words, do we really need God to do good?

This isn't necessarily my friend's question, or at least, that's not how I understood her. Frankly, it's my question that I'm trying to hash through.

How do you respond to this?