[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I'm still not seeing it the way you see it. I don't see that scorecard where one "racks up" Good Works anywhere in the Council's own words. They seem to state the opposite quite clearly.

Oh? Let's see if you can answer the following challenge, then:

"Each act of Good Work increases the Believer's Justification before God."

True, or False?

Best, OP

[siunevada]

Got a location for that quote?

I do find this:

CHAPTER X. On the increase of Justification received.

Having, therefore, been thus justified, and made the friends and domestics of God, advancing from virtue to virtue, they are renewed, as the Apostle says, day by day; that is, by mortifying the members of their own flesh, and by presenting them as instruments of justice unto sanctification, they, through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, faith co-operating with good works, increase in that justice which they have received through the grace of Christ, and are still further justified, as it is written; He that is just, let him be justified still; and again, Be not afraid to be justified even to death; and also, Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. And this increase of justification holy Church begs, when she prays, "Give unto us, O Lord, increase of faith, hope, and charity."

I still think you are talking apples and oranges with the Council. I'm not sure you both mean the same thing when you use the words 'justice', 'justification' or 'increase'.