No one is good, in and of themselves, not one.
I think that's incredibly insulting.
There are good people and there are bad people and that's just the way it is.
Nobody is born "good" or "bad". People's worldviews and ethics are shaped by their upbringing, culture, life-walk,... and to an extent influenced by their genetics.
To call people "inherently evil" is a christian premise which I completely and totally object to. I also find that it strips humans from their humanity and only serves one purpose: to put people down, just to lift them up again by conventiently providing the "one and only cure" for it.
This is a strategy that comes straight out of the playbook of con-men.
First, you assert that someone is sick / has a problem and then convince them that you conveniently hold the only solution.
Personally, it is my greatest objection to mainstream christian theology / philosophy.
I'ld have no problem with it, if that premise could actually be independently supported. But it cannot.
Romans 3:10-12 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; (11) no one understands; no one seeks for God. (12) All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."
I don't care what the bible says - just like you don't care what other "holy" books have to say.
As you define yourself to be an Atheist, and thus against the word of God, it is no surprise you reject the word of God.
Atheism is not "against" the word of anybody.
I'm not "against" gods. As an atheist, I don't believe there are any gods to be against. Which is entirely different.
Yes, I reject unsupported assertions. You do that too. You just make an exception for the unsupported religious assertions of the religion you happen to subscribe to.
When it comes to any other topic, you are probably just as skeptical as I am.
No, based on objective exegetical principles and the revelation of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is not subject to my personal interpretation.
If that were true, there wouldn't be thousands of different denomination, all of which "interpret" that book in their own specific way - even to the point of accusing eachother of not being "real christians" and even worse... to the point of using violence on eachother.
Even within a single denomination, you'll find many disagreements about god's "standard".
It's also (not so) curious to see that God oftenly seems to have the same opinions as the one who claims to have "the correct interpretation".