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Because salvation being symbolized as a garment is a common motif throughout the bible. Salvation COVERS sin symbolically (but really the sin is forgiven and not attributed to you it's put on Jesus.)I don't understand how you just equated this as the meaning of the man getting kicked out of not wearing a wedding dress. There is nothing in that story that hints the wedding dress symbolizes anything you just said. Garments are given to people invited to the ceremony and i can claim those invited include those who also did good, especially when all verses in the Bible are summed up.
It actually goes back to the garden.
Adam and Eve sinned. Their sin exposed them (nakedness is also a motif commonly used in the bible to describe a sinful state), they attempted to cover their nakedness through their own works.
God did not accept their works, and instead provided covering for them, by slaying animals, the first sacrifice, the first physical deaths resulting from sin, which became a theme too, that sin ultimately costs life, eventually costing the life of God's only begotten Son.
God provides the atonement for sin, not you or your works/deeds.
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