It sounds religious and contrite until you really think about it. Then you realize that when you add anything to what Christ has done, it diminishes the glory of God. It is a rejection of God’s gift as sufficient. We can try to excuse ourselves and say that the gospel seems too good to be true. But no matter what we say, when we add something to the gospel we are minimizing the completeness of God’s work, and we are essentially trying to share the glory with God by bringing our own gift.
