[hosepipe]

Isaiah 64;6..
All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

Note: on the other hand Jesus died on the cross for Something.. WHAT?..

[Marysecretary]

Yep, too bad some of the religious folks here don't KNOW that yet.

[Quix]

Indeed.

There's something inherently human that fiercely resists the Scriptural exhortation that our best works of righteousness are as used Kotex.

It affronts our pride wholesale.

Then the tendency is to say something like--well, if that's the case, then I may as well not try.

But that misses the point too. Our works of righteousness MOST RIGHTEOUSLY flow out of our Love and gratitude to our Lord for HIS FREE GIFT OF SALVATION.

The human hazard satan likes to make so much hay out of is the human need to STRIVE in our own flesh and strength and to assume we have earned righteousness therefrom. And plenty of evils get built up on that.