Becoming Sinless.

Will there ever come a time in eternity where we will be able to stand in the presence of God by our own righteousness?
 
No. Any righteousness that any human might ever have is completely due to God's grace and the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
Of ourselves, we have none.
 
Will there ever come a time in eternity where we will be able to stand in the presence of God by our own righteousness?
Didn't Adam do that?
Adam thought that right and wrong could be decided by him rather than God. That's exactly what eating of the tree of knowledge of good or evil meant. In doing so, Adam rejected God as the source of righteousness (or rightness) and truth, making himself the source or origin. In doing that, his relationship with God was cut, and Adam died spiritually.
Death entered the created realm.
So no, standing in our own righteousness means dumping God's.
 
I guess the only way the Lord God is going to show us throughout all the ages what he has planed for us would be by his "grace" in his "kindness" in Christ Jesus. If it has anything to do with grace then it is because of something we are not worthy enough to have by our own power, apart from Christ being our righteousness. I suppose this was the only way a imperfect being (us) can live inside of a perfect being (God).

Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Eph 2:6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
 
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