Look n&l, if the Pharisees couldn't keep the law, then why do you think you can? Or why could anyone else for that matter. And if you think you can add one single thing to the atonement by your own filthy self-glorifying acts, then you are in essence turning your back upon the crusifixion. You are exhibiting that you believe you can save yourself. But hey, good luck with that....and that becoming a 'god' thing.
(yeah, thinking you can be perfect in your obvedience and works enough that you can become a god is not in direct conflict to John 7:18...He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh His glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.)
If Jesus thinks they way you do then we does he give us this command if he knows we will fail?
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Dang it, this sure sounds Mormon to me)
YES, you are right to a certain point. We will all fail. And we will fail, again and again, almost endlessly. But on the other hand, I reject the idea, that we can just “magically” confess a belief in Jesus Christ and then sit on our butts! I believe that we have to do it relying solely on the Jesus Christ and put effort in it. Like the old saying says with two people, nothing is impossible, if one of them is God.