[stuartcr]

Perhaps instead of thinking that you are filthy and vile when compared to God, you could think that, since you are not God, and a human, you are merely different. Do you think animals are filthy and vile creatures because they are not like you?

[Jerry_M]

Oh no, I do not consider animals to be filthy vile sinners. This is because they were not made in the image of God. Men were, but have so horribly marred that image as to virtually unrecognizable. No, it is not a filthiness based on difference (though I would not disagree with you that God and men are different), it is a filthiness based upon the sinful actions of men who have spat in the face of their Creator, and who have chosen to go their own way, regardless of His desires for them.