"It
is written 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything
written in the Book of the Law"
Galatians 3:10
The truth is that complete perfection is our duty to God. We fall
short of this all the time. Because perfection is our duty to God, there
is nothing we can do extra to atone for past wrong, and this means we
are under the curse of God's law. So we can't escape the consequences of
our wrong doing by our own efforts. We must be saved by someone else or
not at all.