Anything good that anyone does, even Mother Theresa, is all of God, and the bible tells you that. Anything we have in this life, is all from God, your life, your money, your kids, your dogs, they are all from Him. Any righteousness we have, whatsoever, comes from God, that is the message of the OT and the Law.
Instead of having a God- centered Christianity you have a man- centered one, which is why you are so confused. You apparently believe, from what I understand of your posts, that it is somehow incumbent on mankind to rise to God's level with no help, and with the devil pulling him down. It can't be done, and which is why, God came down to earth to save mankind. And that is Christianity.
Whatever "good" Mother Theresa did, if not from God, was worthless.
Bah. You haven’t read all the posts. The whole thread was about why the doctrine of Election is a flawed theory of who ultimately is saved, and who isn’t.
I, too, believe that all we have is from God. On my own, I have nothing. Got it. Check.
Still, FREE WILL exists. Lucifer and his demons possess people. They tear at humanity BECAUSE it tears at God. Christ protects our souls from Lucifer.
Man IS in the middle. It doesn’t mean I believe in a man-centered Christianity. Man CANNOT rise to God’s level, ever. He’s saved, and by that act of grace, we defeat death. We have the Holy Spirit.
You miss the point of what I was saying about Theresa. In a world where the saved have already been chosen (doctrine of Election), then there is no need for evangelism, or the acts of evil perpetrated by demons, because the outcome is known.