Being good is actually religion. It is an attempt to be godly without God. It is a belief, a "faith" that you are, can be, and should be good on your own.  "Goodness" is a religion that supersedes* Christianity and Christ Himself.
The "good person" displaces God with himself.

Goodness says I am better than the Creator and can create a better image than He can. It shakes its finger at God and speaks "shame on You, You failure." Good is one more "o" than God. Goodness is more than God, bigger than God, better than God. Goodness calls Him a liar who says there is no good in us.

You have no relationship with God when you are in goodness. It's a relationship with your Self, with your own persona of goodness.

To remain in "goodness" you become married to the evil spirit of goodness: you go into union with IT, cater to it, feed it, listen to it. It is total involvement with the demon of goodness. All your thoughts, motives and directions come from IT. You are led by it completely. The evil spirit of goodness becomes your master, has a leash around your neck and takes you where he wants you to go. You become the embodiment of the evil of Satan who is the consummate liar. It's all built on the lie that you are "good". That's why it is demonic.

You have chosen to believe the lie that you are good, you are completely blind to Satan's trickery. You have so turned your back on the truth about yourself you are fair game for Satan to feed you.

Goodness makes you a shell of a person because you have thrown out truth by violent refusal. Satan fills your cavity, empty of God, with endless supporting notions of your goodness which are actually demonic hosts with assignments to bring forth destruction, death and murder, from you. And you, deceived, have no remorse.

Everybody thinks "oh my, how could goodness ever do that? You are being good, like God wants you to be." "Oh, what a wonderful guy he is, he's just so good."

If it's not God, it's sin. If it's not all rooted and planted in the righteousness of God, stemming from the thoughts of God and the initiation of God, then it is the seed of Satan. Goodness is not initiated by the Father so it is initiated by the 'father of lies.'

It seeks to please man rather than God and because it does this you are validated in your evil. Because it emanates from a very motive of self and man-pleasure, (flesh) it can never please God. You may have all the "atta boys," the "hip hip hurrahs" and "for he's a jolly good fellows." You may have all the accolades of humanity but God is not impressed.

Your charm and deceit does not fool Him. He sees through the facade and condemns it from the throne. His very judgment rests on your god of goodness. You and your 'father' stand before God defending your case
that your little throne is higher than God. This is where goodness boils from, the core of Satan who says my throne shall be exalted above the most High God. That is why it is so evil by being in the core and seat of Satan, the very reason he was thrown out of heaven. The deceptiveness of it deceived even one-third of the heavenly hosts. Fleshly man has not a leg to stand upon against its trickery. If the very heavenly hosts could be deceived in the very presence of God, how can the man who is not in truth see through the lie?

Christianity is a relationship with God, intimate, in raw truth about yourself and about who God is. In order to have a relationship with the Creator you must be the creation He created you to be: a vessel for Holiness, and for that, dependent utterly on Him.

Goodness is Satan's counterfeit of holiness and if you ascribe to that "ideal" the press you receive will be all in your favor. Holiness "gathers" to the Creator. Goodness "scatters" away from God.

"He who is not with me is against me,
and he who does not gather with me scatters."
Matthew 12:30

Goodness listens to its own mantra and maintains everything for that altar. The "good one" forces others to listen to prevent anyone from speaking against it, then captures your mind and makes you a prisoner daring you to defy them. They demand worship from others INSTEAD of God and they fetter your soul.

They live in a illusionary world. It has its own laws and principles, their own system of weights and judgments where the check and balance is always in their favor. It is a universe of their own creation. You come in either as a citizen or an alien. If you are the foreigner you are an enemy to the camp. Foreigners carry with them contrary thoughts which shake the pillars that this flimsy universe sits upon. They must intimidate you to become a citizen and worship them as god or kill you. This universe is constructed of vile vapors, wisps of contrary thoughts to the truth. For a party to bring truth into this fabrication threatens their very existence.

They are the creator of their own universe which includes their truth in all things. The Truth shatters their whimsical fables. They have been exiled and banished from reality. They either have to get you to bow down and worship them or else their whole universe, everything they created that is held so dear, is gone! Because those in "goodness" bank everything on this lie, they live in stark terror of Truth, that it would expose THEY themselves are the lie. They believe another basic lie: they MUST be good.
If they are not "good" they will not be loved.

"To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they can not hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it." Jeremiah 6:10

"They remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. But then they would flatter Him with their mouths, lying to Him with their tongues." Psalm 78:35-36

Matthew 23:1-39
 

*Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary:
Supersede:
Replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use as by another person or thing. To set aside or cause to be set aside as void useless and obsolete, usually in favor of something mentioned. Supplant, revoke, annul, replace rescind

 
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