Christianity doesn’t promise Heavenly rewards for obeying rules... that’s what separates Christianity from all the others. Christianity explicitly states that we cannot earn our salvation and that our righteousness is like filthy rags to God.
Ephesians 2: 8-10 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Christianity doesn’t promise Heavenly rewards for obeying rules... that’s what separates Christianity from all the others. Christianity explicitly states that we cannot earn our salvation and that our righteousness is like filthy rags to God.
"Oh that pesky Protestant theology!"
Yes that pesky Protestant theology of the Bible
Ephesians 2: 8-10 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Works is evidence of faith. You are putting the cart before the horse.