If you understand righteousness from any perspective other than the fact you have zero righteousness and conflate verses to try and insert your own so called righteousness, then yup starts to be confusing. As your op so accurately portrays. There is only One who is righteous and it ain't you or any other human.
Please explain what you think is the way to attain a character trait, what it means to have a character trait, and how that applies specifically to the trait of righteousness.
I have said nothing in support of establishing or inserting our own righteousness apart from God. The Bible describes many people as being righteous, such as with Noah (Genesis 6:8-9) or with Zechariah and Elizabeth (Luke 1:5-6), so it is false that we have zero righteousness, though again they did not establish their own righteousness.
The author does not reflect a point of salvation but claims to have grown up as one.
In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works in obedience to God’s law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation as the result, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of those works is part of His gift of salvation.
If Jesus redeemed us, then how is it you then attribute what you do as the key to understanding what Jesus did for us. English is obviously not your first language. I speak more than one language too but not what you speak. However, your response is confusing/confused in any language.
We embody what we believe about God through our works, such as with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through his works, so the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross is by being a doer of the same works as James. God graciously teaching us to be a doer of good works is something that God is doing for us, not something that we do to establish our own goodness apart from God, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew 5:16).
What is the way in which Christ walked? In communication, trust and faith in God. You are not and cannot do what He did but you can and should walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. We can come into God's presence through Jesus if we have belief in Him and understand it is only because of Him that we can do so.
The Bible repeatedly speaks about walking in context of obedience to God, so the way to walk in the same way that Christ walked is by following his example of obedience to God’s law. For example:
Ezekiel 20:19?“I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,”
God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, but rather the goal of God’s law is to teach us how to walk in the power of the Spirit.
