I’m not perfect by any means and am working to overcome a few problems that are not insignificant, but after what I’ve learned here and through Q, if God grades on the curve, I’m on pretty damned good shape to get into heaven or atleast in adjacent community.
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That would be spot on except that it misses the partbof our need to repent of sin.
How much sin do you need to repent? Some? All? What if you forget a little one? Then no go?
I agree that the heart needs to be a repentant in nature, but is the act of repenting is works and if you have to repent enough to cover all of your sin, then your salvation is based on works.
Or is coming to Christ a matter of belief?
Acts 16, the jailer runs in and asks what he must do to be saved…
Acts 16:31 answers Believe in the Lord Jesus
Another example is the there on the cross. He just believed in Christ. No works possible there.
I think that it could be so slight that it’s almost how you word it but the heart is repentant because the belief is that Jesus died for your sins. But the work of trying to ask for or repent for all sin that you can account for, that’s works to some degree and I don’t believe in works based salvation.
It is by grace we are saved. Food for thought. Not interested in a debate but I used to think like you and agree. But once I really studied it, this is what I think now.
Repenting is no more a work than believing in or asking for Jesus to enter our hearts; by your logic, any act of the mind or thought is a work.
Being repentant of sin is a disposition towards sin and God. Read Romans 7 vs 13+ for more clarification of the disposition Christians have with sin.