[ealgeone]

It's a given that no one is perfect. However, cynically hiding behind this truth is a failure of the Heart. God KNOWS your heart, cynicism won't fly. We must not only avoid sin but we must try to BE Christ to others. Good works are essential to salvation. The warning that good works won't buy your way into Heaven is an admonition against the same sort of cynicism or over simplification your view represents.

I knew you wouldn't answer these. Because if you had it would prove that your good works, no matter how many they may be, are insufficient to gain entrance into Heaven. As Paul noted they are as filthy rags.

It is only through belief in Christ that we gain entrance into the Kindgom.

Are good works a result of believing in Christ? Yes. No doubt about it. An apple tree cannot bear anything other than apples. So as a Christian we should be producing fruit for the Kingdom.

To your charge that I cynically hide behind this is bogus.

I freely confessed I am a sinner. I am saved through the shed blood of Christ. Nothing else can cleanse me of my sins. I know any good work I do is insufficient to gain entrance into Heaven.

My prayer is that you, and everyone else who reads this, has placed their faith in Christ. Nothing else gets you into His Heaven.

[TalBlack]

“I knew you wouldn’t answer these. “

You don’t see what you don’t want to see. Good works absent BELIEF and FAITH “are as rags”. Good works done ostentatiously are no better that prayer done the same way.

What does “Go! And sin no more”! mean to YOU?