We are ...

You see, the Bible makes it clear that we have alienated ourselves from God because of our sin. God is so perfect, so holy, so completely and utterly different from us, that He can not look on our sin. And nothing we do, not even our greatest and kindest deeds can reconcile us to God.

Left on our own, we would be hopeless, helpless and staring an eternity without God right in the face.