Do we really think that Christ made Himself “of no reputation” so we could fight for our own?
We must serve a weak God. He cannot keep us from sin; He cannot overcome our flesh, our greed, our lust, our pride. We only claim His power to forgive such things, yet not to overcome them, and boast that we have caught God in some sort of loophole where we get to sin and He can’t judge us. Then we call it grace. That’s not the God revealed to us through the Bible, though. I wonder what god we truly serve.
This is what we do. We go to God as a student goes to a teacher and asks for help for an impending test. God, in his limitless grace and mercy, gives us all the answers. We take His answer key, refuse to look at it, and proceed to take the test on our own. We fail the test, and when condemned, pridefully hold up the key we refused to apply.
Peace.