[ebb tide]

What would you add to the Righteousness of Christ to make you worthy of eternal life?

Faith and Works.

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc.

[MHGinTN]

Does what you add insure eternal life, or is Jesus the source of eternal life before you add anything?

[metmom]

Faith and Works. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc.

So the sinless, perfect righteousness of Christ isn't good enough for you?

You think you have to add your sin stained *works* to make up for what Jesus didn't do or something?

[metmom]

Faith and Works. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc.

So here it also looks like you are saying that since you have to add those things to Christ's sinless perfect holy righteousness to be saved, that Jesus didn't do those things and that you have to do them because Jesus was lacking in those areas.

Have you read the Gospels lately?

[metmom]

Faith and Works. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc.

There's also the consideration that when Jesus did those works that He did them holy and pure and without sin stain, and for all the right reasons.

When we do our works, they are tainted with sin from the get go and even our motivation is suspect, which makes the works not God's kind of holy in His eyes.

Jesus did His works because He always did what He saw the Father doing.

When someone is doing them as part of working for salvation, their motive is wrong because it's self-centered, not other centered.

It's not done out of godly love from a pure heart but rather as a tool by which to manipulate God into forcing His hand to let that person into heaven. Which invalidates the work as being worthy of being considered salvific.

So doing the right works with the wrong motivation invalidates them.

On rare occasion, I suppose that someone might just be able to accidentally do something out of pure, godly love for the other person that is unstained by self, but I'm guessing that's pretty unlikely and pretty rare.

BTW, what if your list of works acceptable for earning salvation is different from someone else's?

How do you know who's right?

[ealgeone]

What would you add to the Righteousness of Christ to make you worthy of eternal life?

Wear one of these????

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I just cannot find that anywhere in Scripture.

However, we do find this:

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. 2 Kings 17:15

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust. Psalms 31:6

8“Those who regard vain idols Forsake their faithfulness, Jonah 2:8

7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY.” 1 Corinthians 10:7