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If the works of the Law, handed down by God Himself couldn’t save, then what makes anyone think any rules or works they decide to add themselves are going to save?

I think that you misunderstand the Catholic teaching on the relationship of faith and works. Works do not save us; the Cross of Jesus Christ does. Salvation, however, is not just the imputation of righteousness. It is the act, on God's part, of sanctification whereby we die to sin and grow in holiness, becoming more and more in the likeness of God. Works are a sign of growth in holiness and love of God. Thus our Lord instructs us on the need to keep the commandments:

Now someone approached him and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, “ ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
(Matt 19:16-19)

Here our Lord mentions some of the 10 Commandments. But it goes deeper than that. The 10 Commandments themselves flow from an orientation of the love of God and the love of our neighbors because of the love of God. Thus:

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
(Matt 22:34-40)

But even after our acceptance of Jesus we are still left with our free will and thus the ability to turn away from the love of God to love of self. Sin is the sign of this love of self. If great enough we separate ourselves from God. In essence we turn to God and say "I know how you want be to live but I choose to not to. So get out of my life and leave me alone." We thus choose ourselves over God and separate ourselves from Him. If this happens, there are no amounts of good works that can repair the breach; only the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. After Baptism this is done by Confession where the priest exercises the power given by Jesus himself to forgive sins. All this is the work not of man but of God.

Catholic teaching indeed - totally void of truth! Catholicsm never taught the truth about salvation and they never will - their teachings are of a worldly sense and catholics will never know what the TRUTH is because they are hell bent on ‘the church said’ ‘the church said’ and what the catholic church teaches is not biblical. Even when eternity hangs in the balance, catholics, mormons are determined they ‘got it’ so they ignore the Truth when it is presented to them. That’s ‘religion’ for you - ‘acting religious’ while totally clueless on the supernatural. God is supernatural - HIS WAYS are higher than man-made religion and all their pomp.

Catholics and Mormons are stuck in bondage ‘in man’/their church. God’s OWN are free ‘in Christ’. God’s Holy Spirit inspired Word is the FINAL AUTHORITY. The book of mormons, the catechism, the koran are from the pit/man. It does not matter if you agree, it needed to be said so you can never claim you never knew. And it will take more than this for the brainwashed to ‘get it’.