<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]If we carry total human inability to it's furthest logical application, we end up with Hannah Wittal Smith and "The Christians's Secret for a Happy Life," in which she states that we, even after we are saved, can do absolutely nothing for God. Everything is completely His work; we do nothing becuase we can do nothing. She even states that the purpose of reading the Bible is not to learn and apply, etc., becuase we can't, but that reading the Bible is simply so that we can recognise what God is already doing in our lives so we can rejoice.</font><hr></blockquote><p>But this idea isn't all wrong. Even once we are saved, we still sometimes have our selfish motives and we sometimes do things that contradict our chief and highest end. Sometimes it is important that we look at our inability to do good and praise God for giving us the grace to try. <br><br>And it is this inability to do good that makes salvation so much more amazing. God calls us and we can't resist and we run to His Son and be saved and He keeps us there because we can't keep ourselves there by anything we do.