[Rashputin]

If you think that after you accept Christ He will not use you for every good work He has for you to do, that those works are all filthy rags just like works that some perform thinking works alone will save them, that's fine with me.

However, even the verse so often distorted in an attempt to show some spider silk thin thread of "proof" that the doctrine of Sola Yourselfa is in the Bible includes, "thoroughly furnished unto all good works". I suppose those who cannot accept Christ and can only accept their own intellect can never produce anything except filthy rags, but Christ and the Apostles teach that we are to produce good works, that we were let men see our good works to glorify the Father, created in Christ unto good works, and so on including the fact that without works faith is dead. We're also told time and again that we will be judged, not covered with some snow and smuggled into heaven in the diplomatic pouch.

However, if whatever you want to believe makes you happy, that's just fine.

[metmom]

If you think that after you accept Christ He will not use you for every good work He has for you to do, that those works are all filthy rags just like works that some perform thinking works alone will save them, that's fine with me.

The only distortion is the one you made when you stated that the good works that God prepared for us to do to walk in were filthy rags.

It's OUR righteousness that's the filthy rags, not the works of God.