No, it couldn't be, because our bad deeds are gone when we repent: "As far as the East is from the West, so far does He remove our transgressions from us." And our good works aren't really "ours" in the ownership sense, but were "prepared for us in advance, that we should walk in them."
In the end, it comes down to whether our soul is alive or dead ... whether God's life, "sanctifying grace," is in us, or not. The parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15) is illustrative. The father says, "This my son was lost, but now he is found; he was dead, but now he is alive. How? Through repentance, and the mercy of the Father.
And our good works aren't really "ours" in the ownership sense, but were "prepared for us in advance, that we should walk in them...
You are correct, but that most definitely is not what I have been told by several RCC members...if they are not ours that means we are not co-operating with God, aka doing good deeds/works...your statement is more Lutheran that God has prepared acts for us in advance that we walk in, or do, when we are brought to Him thru the Holy Spirit...these deeds do not save, but are a result of being saved...
despite what NYer says, no one who has been brought to God by the Spirit does what pleases God...God's predpared acts of love are done through those who are with God...
The works of judgement NYer states from 1 Cor is judgement on our works in life, our following of the commandments of God...the context of that chapter shows this...