HELLO BARRY
I am responding out of courtesy to your post, against my better judgement.
I dont agree with your comments about Australian Christains, and I do have sound figures and information to show I am right, but this is off-topic, so I will focus on the knowledge of good and evil.
Your question; Is there any good apart from God - is based on a scripture taken out of context. That scripture says in reality that the only ONE who is good is God. Jesus did not say there was no other good apart from God, what he clearly said was there was only ONE (person) who is good, and that person of course is God.
But to answer your question, yes, there is another good apart from God, namely Gods creation, and when God had finished it he saw that it was not just good, but VERY GOOD. So you see, there is good apart from God, and that good is Gods creation.
My premise is that the knowledge of good is the knowledge of Gods creation, and the knowledge of evil is the knowledge that is alien to and destructive of Gods creation. I identified those two kinds of knowledge as scientific and technological knowledge (see original post).
Thus, your claim, or your wifes claim, that only God is good, is not entirely accurate, since God Himself said His creation was good, indeed "very good."
There is no more to say, I have answered your question fully and showed from the bible that there is good apart from God and I dont want to get into semantics or word games on this issue. Nothing can nullify Gods clear words in Genesis, these are the true biblical facts.
I consider this issue concluded, and so should you.
Kerry