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Originally Posted by daniel_1012
Because who defines good? You see, if YOU are going to pick what YOU see as good, YOU are defining what good is and YOU have now made yourself God.
It is true--many religions may, by works, practice various things that are good. However, unless you are perfect... who are you to determine what good is and is not?
If you simply pick and choose what you see as, or feel as good... you will inevitibly arrive at a mirror of yourself (your own opinions)-- not what is actually good.
Edit: And of course, we as Christians know that it is not be works anyhow. It is by God's grace.  Picking and doing what you see as good is nothing but a works based relgion, working to earn favor. |
You are absolutely correct Daniel. If a robber and a murderer did a good work, say donate to a church, or give a loaf of bread to a poor man, their good deed would be as filthy rags. However, if that man be a man of God, his good work would count for grace.
Abraham, by all estimations was a good and Godly man. God told him to offer his son on the alter. Abraham's Faith cooperated with his works. By works his Faith was made perfect. By his works Abraham was justified, and not by Faith only
Rahab the harlot was justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way.
James 2:21-24