Ethical behavior never produces righteousness. There is none righteous, no not one. All your righteousness is as Isaiah said, bloody cotex before Him. Therein is the righteousness of God revealed. The imputed righteousness that comes by faith. And whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Not doing something doesn't make you good, (I don't do this or I don't do that) it makes you nothing. You have to do the good, and the good is already predefined. Without faith it is impossible to please Him. What you are trying to assert is the same logic as saying, "a man has two legs, ipso facto, if it has two legs it's a man"... Sounds real great until you understand birds have 2 legs, and birds aren't a man. It's rhetorical nonsense.