The Extent of Our Fallenness

Some people are worse than others. Also, we are not as corrupt as we could be. There is no "bottom" for depths of sin to reach. Think of Hitler! It is easy to blame those that have it worse than us when we don't do the same things. What I struggle with may be foreign to you and what you struggle with may be foreign to me. "Why don't you just get right!" is easier said when one has been blessed with a greater ability for natural goodness.
We can be good and not be Christians but we can also be bad and be Christians. Don't loose control of yourself just yet. I am getting to the point. We are all fallen by nature in Adam and because of our birth into the world with a sin nature we are disqualified from having free access to God apart from being justified in Christ. If we have broken God's law in one point we are guilty and need salvation. We have all sinned and fall short--big sins or small. Because we have not been born in and corrupted by sin to the extent of having lost our image of Godness we are in a sense capable of being righteous--even an unbeliever! But this righteousness is not enough to buy safe passage into the presence of God. It is but filthy rags in his sight! And it must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. Luther noted that there is an active and passive righteousness. Active in what we do and passive in what Christ has done for us (he imputed his righteousness to our account). Goodness just seems to come "natural" to some while it is more work for others. Some struggle with besetting sins their whole life while the concept is foreign to others. Are you good in this respect? If so have compassion on us big time sinners! We have a longer journey of sanctification. And remember it is when you think you stand tall that you fall!
"No one who considers his frailty would dare to attribute to his own strength his chasity and innocence, so that he has less cause to love you--as if he had less need of your mercy by which you forgive the sins of those converted to you. If man is called by you, follows your voice, and has avoided doing those acts which I am recalling and avowing in my own life, he should not mock the healing of a sick man by the physician, whose help has kept him from falling sick, or at least enabled him to be less gravely ill. He should love you no less, indeed even more; for he sees that the one who delivered me from great sickness of my sins is also he through whom he may see that he himself has not been a victim of the same great sickness" (Augustine Confessions). "There are some who have a rough passage , you may say, all through their lives, while the tests to which others are subjected are gentle enough" (a Kempis, Imitation).