OC | Question 60 & 61
60. Why do you say that by faith alone you are right with God?
It is not because of any value my faith has that God is pleased with me. Only Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness make me right with God.178 And I can receive this righteousness and make it mine in no other way than by faith alone.179
^ 178. 1 Cor. 1:30-31
^ 179. Rom. 10:10; 1 John 5:10-12
61. Why can’t the good we do make us right with God, or at least help make us right with him?
Because the righteousness which can pass God’s scrutiny must be entirely perfect and must in every way measure up to the divine law.180 Even the very best we do in this life is imperfect and stained with sin.181