Let us both assume the word of God is the truth (which I believe.)
Unfortunately, Christianity has become a religion, and the focus is on earthly things (not spiritual things.) For example, God encourages tithing, but hates usury. He loves it when a man knows a woman intimately (for procreation or pleasure,) but only if said man and woman are monogamous as to symbolize the marriage of Christ to the Church (of believers.) The things believers do are supposed to have spiritual meanings to them. The vegetables only diet before the flood (given by God) was supposed to symbolize us eating things that have no blood - no life force. In other words, we don't have to kill things to eat them. Moses casting a brown serpent on a rod that healed the Israelites bitten by snakes in the desert (according to the power of God) had the spiritual meaning of Christ being crucified on a rod (the cross,) in which His death keeps us all from dying. Christ wasn't a serpent, but just like the serpent (the symbol of evil/death) was used to heal the men mortally wounded by serpents, Christ became sin to heal those that had been mortally wounded by sin (us.) Christ even destroyed the physical temple, and built a spiritual one unbounded by walls. Yet, this is missed by "the Church."
You can be holy, and raise a family, go to work, and have tremendously powerful faith. Most all the Israelites did just that. But, can you be holy, and be a "functioning member of 'society'" with even sufficient faith? That is the real question for Christianity, because being a functioning member of society means Government is in your top five. It means science, and the faith in its accuracy thereof, is in your top five. It means money is in your top five. These three things alone only leave two spots for God, love, family, holiness and faith, friendship, fellowship, and self. Yet, the latter things are the more spiritually rich items; governments fall, science is wrong many times, and money systems collapse. Moreover, jobs are lost, status is removed and humbled, etc. So, being a holy man/woman of faith conflicts with being a "functioning member of society" because the priority will [should] be on God for the holy wo/man.
Faith, love, worship and fellowship in God will be number 1 to the holy wo/man. Belief in and love for Christ comes in at an interchangeable 2nd. Love for family, friends and strangers AND love for self tie for third and fourth, and then love of the beauty of God's creation should round out a Christian's top five. For most people that have a top five similar to this, they are usually not prominent figures in society. This person wouldn't care about money, status, the rise and fall of governments, or even what science says is possible/impossible/right/wrong. Calamity (poverty, death in family, physical/emotional trauma, etc.) would not phase this person, because this physical body is trivial when compared to the spiritual body the Christian believer will receive at the resurrection. No one has mastered holiness save Christ. He is the model for believers.
Many people in "the Church" have become very preoccupied with getting money to pay bills, calamity within the family, jobs and providing for the family, the economy and political environment. It has even become a perversion on both sides: preachers/ministers/priests molesting, using and taking advantage of members of the church, and church members who feed these perversions with ignorance and apathy. As a result, faith in God has become a commonplace and trite concept, rather than a spiritual parent to love and worship. Moreover, the fruits of the spirit (love, honor, responsibility, patience, etc.) have been dampened. Jobs, bills, family matters and the economy are important, but not nearly as important as focusing on God and trusting Him. Christ said God knows what we need, making a parallel between the birds of they sky having food when they need it, and shelter when they need it. Moreover, God says that our bodies are more than clothing, and our lives are more than food. So, I think Christians make faith hard by trying to be "functioning members of the societies of earth," and not "functioning members of God's family." This is the meaning of being in the world, but not being of the world. Faith can be very easy if we believe, and follow God. But we put blocks upon ourselves by trying to be of this world. These blocks are what corrupt Christianity; e the word of God is corrupted to justify the things of the world, so that living in this world is less abrasive and more comfortable.
To believers, no human is "good." All are deserving of God's wrath for transgressing His holy universal laws (by sinning.) However, by His grace (undeserved compassion, patience, forgiveness and long-suffering,) God allows us to be close to Him in worship and love, especially through the sacrifice of Christ. There is no way even a holy man can be good. Therefore, morality is meaningless to the believer, as the standard is set by a human. However, it is important to recognize that "morality" overlaps with many of the standards of God. For example, murder is wrong in the eyes of morality and God. Infidelity is wrong in the eyes of morality and God. Deceit is wrong in the eyes of morality and God. This is because the universal laws of God are written on the hearts of men - both believer and non-believer.
