[metmom]

Who is more righteous, the one who professes to believe and does not do His works, or the one who professes not to believe but does His works anyway ?

Neither because our righteousness is not our own nor a result of our own works.

A believer's righteousness is Christ's righteousness credited to our account when we believe.

Mankind's attempts at righteousness is equivalent nothing more than a two year old's scribbling with crayon on the Mona Lisa, and that even falls far short as an analogy.

Or digging a ditch and claiming it's the Grand Canyon.

[Mark17]

Or digging a ditch and claiming it's the Grand Canyon.

How about Baghdad Bob, we will roast their stomachs in Hell.

[boatbums]

I guess they don't have this in their Bibles:

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness, just as David proclaims the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: (Romans 4:5,6)