[kosta50]

We can't earn our way to Heaven, but we sure can please God...Rom 12:1...Rom 14:17-18...1 Tim 5:4...Heb 13:20-21...

"Pleasing God" is an anthropomorphism. It is a figure of speech, perhaps even a wish. Just as we can't do enough to earn our way into heaven, there is nothing we can do that's sooooo great as to please God (if God were subject to pleasure).

Rather, we can choose to do according to His will. If we do according to His will then we are being Christ-like, for Christ in his humanity always chose to do according to His divine will.

[stfassisi]

“”Rather, we can choose to do according to His will. If we do according to His will then we are being Christ-like, for Christ in his humanity always chose to do according to His divine will.””

Exactly,Dear Brother. Thank You!

.....And EVERY sinful act is of the HUMAN WILL(NOT planned by God),the cause of sin is within man himself. Sin is the Will of man against the eternal law of God. Thus, sin is a voluntary act AGAINST the WILL OF GOD

[Forest Keeper]

"Pleasing God" is an anthropomorphism. It is a figure of speech, perhaps even a wish. Just as we can't do enough to earn our way into heaven, there is nothing we can do that's sooooo great as to please God (if God were subject to pleasure).

If God cannot be pleased, in contradiction to more than 100 verses in scriptures, then He is a machine and impersonal. Such a God would be no more than a supercomputer. Glory be to God that His word says just the opposite.