The difference between Christ's and human righteousness has been neglected by those who believe in a man's divine essence and therefore we will show in the next chapters how the legalization of human righteousness as of God's moral law induces a man to:

1) understand superficially the function of God's moral law; 2) identify the faith with the experience from the events; 3) present distortedly God's character and 4) use erroneously his free will to the purpose of the realization of salvation.

OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MOVED BY BAD MOTIVES

In order to prove that man has not lost his divine essence by the fall into sin, many are prone to say: "Well, don't you see that every man in the depth of his soul wants to be good and tries, at least as much as it depends on him, that what he does be righteous?!"

It is true that a man has in his nature a need for righteousness, but that need is of a pathological origin. It is the reflection of the guilt because of sin, and not of a true love for God.

The strength of human righteousness is found in sinful motives of the human nature, in his pride, selfishness, fear, rage against injustice and in aroused feelings. Human righteousness does not bear fruits that are in accordance with the ten commandments of God's moral law being written into the hearts of repenting sinners (Ezekiel 36:25- 28).

The rejection of the reprimands directed against sinful motives of human natural righteousness is always related to the neglecting and distorting of the role of God's moral law, as well as to the underestimating and distorting of the role of the common sense which is only whereby a man can understand the requirements of the law.