Augustine points out on page 273 that we are incapable of goodness. Because of God's ever-presence, and His innate goodness, all good works done by humans are in fact null and void, for Augustine says "in any good actions of mine you were there before me; in my merits you were rewarding 'the works of your own hands, by which you made me' (Ps. 118:73)." God does not need us. We can never by our own works balance the scale weighing the glory of humanity and the glory of God, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:23-24). Because of God's goodness and the sacrifice of His son, we have been set free from the death that results from our wickedness.
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