@pb1022 said
Maybe the biggest error with this false gospel is it fails to recognize that God is a resource to help us while we’re on earth.
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
(Psalm 46:1)
All this false gospel is concerned with is earning one’s salvation through good works and keeping the commandments (when salvation is actually a gift from God.)
...[text shortened]... of God’s indwelt Holy Spirit and out of love and gratitude for what Jesus did for them on the cross.
Even Jesus, while He was here, said He could do nothing of Himself, only what the Father did. Christ sends us the Holy Spirit so that, like Jesus while He was here, we could do the works of God without Him, we can do nothing, without the Spirit of God we are not Gods, nor can we do anything without Him.
John 5:19
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Titus 3:4-6
English Standard Version
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
John 16:13
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
It is God working in us that matters, not our trying to get good enough for God, that level of goodness is far beyond us because God is good in every sense of the word, and we are not.