>>> Nothing you have posted to me has any reasonable relationship to what I have posted to you.
Now you are making sense.
You go right ahead and choose to stand before God according to your own righteousness.
I’ll rely upon the righteousness of Christ, and His shed blood for my sins.
If Jesus and His apostles taught reliance upon the torah for salvation, then the Pharisees would have had no argument with Him whatsoever... and He would not have been brought up on charges of blasphemy and crucified... nor would the apostles and Christians who followed Him been hunted down and killed for their beliefs.
Do I think John was wrong??? No... but I think the straw-man you made out of him is.
The righteousness of Christ is keeping his commandments, not a get-out-of-hell-free card.
You have to know him.
See what John says about knowing him.