The Wrong Path to Pursuing Christ

The greatest danger of putting confidence in the flesh would be to trust in our own efforts to earn our own salvation. ‘Personal religious efforts’ in order to be saved was the Judaizers’ dogma. And being a ‘super-Jew’ is how Paul first tried to earn his salvation. In this passage, Paul will describe every way, every area, and every step he took to be righteous before God as a non-Christian. This could be titled 'The Best a Man Can Do,' which sadly, can NEVER make a man righteous before God. No man can ever earn his own salvation.