Scott,<br>You are so completely and consistently missing the point of my earlier questions concerning your righteousness in God's sight that further discourse seems unprofitable. Any person who has despaired of believing that their own righteousness is an essential factor in satisfying the perfect justice of God, and has been granted saving faith in the perfect imputation of the perfect righteousness of Christ to their own person, would be able to answer those questions without hesitation. Your refusal, or inability, to do so speaks volumes about where your own ultimate confidence lies.<br><br>For the record, your prescience that I would find fault with whatever answer you gave (among "yes" or "no"), is simply, flatly, wrong. If you had been truly able to say merely "no", I would have gladly pointed you to the righteousness of Christ; if you had been truly able to say merely "yes", I would have gladly encouraged you to keep clinging to the righteousness of Christ as your only "comfort" (oh, how I pray you learn the meaning of the word) and your sole boast. But since you apparently were unable to do either without equivocating and ignoring the Scriptures, and, infinitely more importantly, since you cling to a system which knowingly promotes a non-Gospel, there is really nothing left to say beyond the Lord Christ's own words, which remain a testimony against your doctrine of self-righteousness:<br><br>For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.<br>Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Last edited by Paul_S; Sun Jul 14, 2002 6:50 PM.
In Christ,
Paul S