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.
I agree. Repenting of sins is important, but it is not part of receiving eternal life. We just believe or put faith in Jesus Christ to receive eternal life from him.
John 11:25 "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”"
John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
Turning from sin saves us from God's Fatherly discipline on Earth and allows us to be useful for Jesus on Earth, so that we can receive rewards from him in eternity.
1 Cor 11:31-32 "But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world."
John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out."