If we live according to the commandments, are we owed righteousness and everlasting life? How can we be so bold as to feel this way after Jesus walked into a vile pit of sin and human debasement, suffered, took on sin, died, and was raised again... all for us in our undeserving state. God created and loved us first, he chose us in love before the creation of the world, and knew us while we were yet in our mother’s womb. How is it we might feel that something we do would entitle us, or hold God accountable in some way?