You Can't "Identify" as Good Through Faith

I have a deep affinity for the version of John the Baptist's preaching from Luke where it has John the Baptist cast judgement on those, who went out to see him, because of the way it undermines hypocrites and predators, who try to make everything into an empty message about love, grace, and forgiveness through an absence of judgment.

"Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire" because no one can "identify" as good separate of being judged for their choices. It's not enough to make a declaration of faith, belief, or the stating of one's allegiances, whether it's declaring, "We have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as our ancestors" or "Jesus is Lord", because one will be judged according to what they do.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’

Matthew 7.21-23 NRSVUE

No one can be good on your behalf according to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew not even Jesus himself, and every person is expected by this version of Jesus to do the will of the Father in heaven and be judged for how well they do so.

No one can "identify" as good through allegiance to Jesus, by faith in Jesus, by eating and drinking the body of Jesus in the form of the Eucharist and Communion, and the only people, who'll be "justified" before God, are those, who do, who put into action good choices, and who are judged for their behaviors and only for their behaviors.

“Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

Matthew 7.24-27 NRSVUE

The one, who confesses with their mouth, "Lord, Lord, did we not have faith in your atoning sacrifice", will be like the foolish man, who built his house on the sand of a belief that they could "identify" as good through their faith in Jesus without being judged for their choices. Those who seek to "identify" as good through their faith or through their family tree are nothing more than wolves in sheep's clothing or swine, who outwardly appear as kosher but inwardly are full of impurity.

Those, whose "goodness" depends on anything other than being judged for their choices, are wolves in sheep's clothing, and they are two-faced hypocrites. Since judgement will expose them for whom and what they are, they resort to hyper-emphasizing "grace" and "love" as their way of protecting themselves and as their way of preserving their opportunities to hurt unsuspecting people.

Unconditional love isn't "light" just because it coddles the worst inside of us while attempting to manipulate the addict tendencies that lurk within the dark, pleasure-seeking sides of the human psyche, and all the talk of "judgement free" unconditional love is a way of persuading others into volunteering for the very the state of vulnerability that hypocrites and predators use to fool their prey into becoming their victims.

The grace and unconditional love that's supposed to replace a system of justice based on the application of a person's conscious and innate ability to choose is pure darkness, evil, and a malevolent form of chaos. Likewise, the nullification of the outcome of a person's choices isn't "light" either, it's evil, a violation of the spirit of absolute holiness, an attack on consciousness itself.

Believers do not do away with judgment in the name of grace, love and forgiveness, they simply make the basis for judgement into something elastic and fluid so as to be able condemn or excuse any behavior without any consistent, rational, logical, valid, or negotiated basis.

Those, who often take comfort in "grace" over being judged for their choices, are those whose hearts are filled with evil intentions, with darkness, with evil, with the shadow, with the true Satan - the inner Satan.

Identifying as a tree with good fruit through faith and belief while crying out, “Lord, Lord", will literally never make you in any way good, neither will it ever transform you into a tree that actual bears the good fruit that can only come from good choices.

Believing with all your heart and confessing that "Jesus is Lord" is not the fruit of a good tree and never will be because you can't "identify" as good through faith in Jesus. No one can.