*Kakos* is the general Greek word for bad. In Matthew 7:11 Jesus does not use it when He calls us evil, though it might have softened the blow. He uses *poneros* instead, which means active, rebellious evil, the kind Satan practices. So Jesus says plainly that we are fundamentally wicked and depraved, morally corrupt and opposed to God, and not merely bad in a mild or incidental way. He sets this evil against the transcendent, eternal goodness of God, who always gives good things. Humanity sits at one end of the moral spectrum, comparable to Satan, the quintessence of evil, and God sits at the other end. Little in common lies between them, apart from the occasional good thing we condescend to do for our children.