There can be little misunderstanding of God's atitude towards the unregenerate. The unregenerate soul CANNOT please God! When God looks at the unregenerated person he sees nothing pleasing, nothing attractive or deserving of anything.

The modern version of the Gospel deceives people into thinking that God looks at them with smiling eyes and that He is lovingly dispose towards them. God is seen as Accepting of people in the way that they are. This is far from the truth.

That none are acceptable as they are before Him is evident from the fact that the Father sent the Son into the world to be the atoning sacrifice for sin! The father CANNOT accept any who are tarnished by sin into His Kingdom for His kingdom is a place that is Holy and Pure and we are unholy and impure creatures.

We can try to make ourselves seem holy and pure by becoming "religiously pious"! We can become reformed people, give up our lives of vice and crime. yet even though we become reformed people we merely become reformed sinners in His sight! Reformation of character is not regeneration of spirit!

We can become "Christians" even "Born Again Christians" yet all we really become is "Christian sinners or "Born Again Christian" sinners! We can become "Spiritual" yet we will remain "Spiritual Sinners"!

Hence the Lord's words to Nicodemas, "Ye must be BORN AGAIN"! Note He did NOT say "Ye must become a Born Again Christian" but "Born Again "!

In order to be acceptable to God Christ had to come and make us righteous in the Father's sight! He did this by fulfilling the righteous requirements of the Law for us. He lived without once transgressing the Law of God in word, thought and/or deed, and He fulfilled the requirements of Justice by baring in His own flesh the just punishment required by the Law, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!"

Thus we have peace with God by the death of Christ! In this way we are reconciled to the Father! If we believe this we are considered righteous by God, if not we remain condemned!

"But God setteth out his love towards us, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now iustified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life,"
(Romans 5:8-10)

"In abrogating through his flesh the hatred, that is, the Law of commandements which standeth in ordinances, for to make of twain one new man in himself, so making peace, And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by his cross, and slay hatred thereby,"
(Ephesians 2:15-16)

"And from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses, by him every one that believeth, is justified."
(Ephesians 4:17-23)