[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your encouragement, dear brother in Christ!

Truly, if a person could be "good enough" to earn eternal life then Christ died for nothing.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. - Galatians 2:21

And I suspect that those who see images of men in the diamond would agree on that point. The difference is that they see the image of man in the revelation, i.e. that he has a role in it.

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

[Quix]

True.

I think I agree with all you’ve said.

Perhaps you could elaborate a bit about

” . . . the image of man in the revelation, i.e. that he has a role in it.”

That’s not precisely clear to me.