Being a “good person” and religion?

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Question was asked: “If religion disappears tomorrow, will you still be a good person?

Christian response,

“goodness” is a response to the Holy Spirit’s anointing and the Holy Spirit does not deal with “religion” but He is a New Covenant promise to the one who believes that Jesus is Messiah who died for them.

Religion is based on working or striving, personal effort, to be sufficiently good to earn a “gods” favor…Christianity is the realization that man is sinful and can never be sufficiently “good” to earn forgiveness from God. Christianity teaches that only by trusting in a “good” God can one find life through faith in Jesus. Jesus is the only “Way” to the Father (John 14:6) and forgiveness of sin (1 Peter 1:18-19; Acts 4:12).

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

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