If you believe as I do in sola scriptura ..we have to look to see how God sees us
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 3 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
This sounds like evil to me!
But does that put unregenerate man on the level with Satan and his minions? or is there a distinction?
Yes, evil but not robotic. Don't miss that it is culpable evil. What the defenders of the construct forget is that it is our will which makes us culpable. If those Paul describes in Romans 1 and 3 had no will to will to commit the acts he describes, he might as well have written about trees that did not grow straight or crippled people who refused to walk straight. The difference -- and it is all the difference -- is that those Paul describes (in describing the unregenerate state, by the way) willed to do the things they did. I won't bore you by counting them, but notice the number of active verbs -- they 'professed,' they 'exchanged,' they 'burned.' In short, they did willful things and that is why they were culpable.
The construct folks paint a play-acting world where nothing is real -- no salvation, no real sin, no will, no culpable acts. Just a bunch of moral cripples who can't walk straight -- because they were made that way -- but God made them and then decided to kick them down the celestial stairs. [One of the things that makes it fun to be a playwright is that you know the whole story -- because you made it up.]
No, Paul rails against the sins of those he describes, precisely because their sin was willful. And, of course, when he turns to that part of his message, so was their opportunity for salvation in Christ.