Short Take: Why don’t good works cancel out sin?

How about the good works aspect of it. They've sinned, but then there is the other human tendency to say well him. I've done a lot of good in my life in a life of going to church have been really kind of people I'm a good person. The idea being that will my good either outweighs the bad. I've done or my good cancels out the sin I've done, how to explain that. Why doesn't the good that we do so to speak. The good why doesn't that cancel out the bad we've done every human being is a tendency toward toward self justification we we want a works righteousness and every religion in the world except Christianity says that the way you the way you're saved is by doing more good things and bad things are at least enough good things to make yourself worthy of being saved. That's the basic human most fundamental human religion in the world, and Christianity just says something something different� A couple of things and it does say the bear minimum that like James says if you broken the law. At one point that wasn't just a mistake that was rebellion against the creator and no amount of good works that you pile up on top of that, take that rebellion away it just it just doesn't. It would be like me saying it like a traffic ticket for speeding.

It's not to be a winning argument in court will judge. Look at all the times I didn't speed and of doesn't that overwhelm this that this one's on that identity is intricately no that's great that you that you didn't speed all those other times but you did in this time and there's consequence for that right so nobody actually believes believes that right at and my kids can do it in school with my if my daughter misses a math problem on her test. She said she's gonna lose some points for that right. You can't disable light in no I did I did better on these other ones that the point though more important than that, though, is that sin is not something that on us that doesn't affect our very being. Sin is in us, and it is all of us is it's not something you can wipe off Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2 we are by nature children of wrath. We deserve what is coming to us in.

I don't think you have to look very hard into human history to see that we humans are capable of some awful awful stuff when you just can't. You can't live on the side of the Holocaust on this side of World War II on the side of American chattel slavery and think that we humans are basically good. We are not at at the first opportunity we do horrific things to one another and we often do it in the name of tonsillitis for their own good, so the human race is not good and we deserve what's coming to us. I think anybody is honest about that. Will it will admitted