I understand that some would condemn my poor attempts to be and do good. I do not believe that G-d is among those who would condemn someone for being and doing good.
“I understand that some would condemn my poor attempts to be and do good. I do not believe that G-d is among those who would condemn someone for being and doing good.”
God would certainly condemn even your “righteous” efforts, which though sparkling in your eyes are but filthy rags in His.
Isa_64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
The only righteousness that can be grasped is that which comes by faith, by the imputation of the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ who did what we could not, the only one who ever lived a “good” life (Rom 1:17, Gal 3:11). Your works can in no way do anything for you, nor can you ever call yourself “good,” for only one is good, and that is God (Luke 18:19).
You can tickle yourself with your Pelagian vanities, but vanity is all they are in the sight of God.