faith is not something you take credit for, it's also a gift from God.
How sinless do you have to be to get into heaven according to your understanding? Perfect from the day you convert? Or perfectly sinfree from your last repentance?
im asking about a person's opinion on salvation, not God, unless you think you're God.
Only by the grace of God. Yet, you cannot enter Heaven and be sexually impure, lest you call Christ a liar.
By the grace of God, we repent of our sin and beg for strength to resist it; and endure, till the very end. Not get sent to Heaven DESPITE IT.
So the impure, sick and sinful can still go to heaven or only the perfect and sinfree? You aren't being clear
That's nice but that is still an impure person. Do you have to be perfect to get to heaven or no?
What do you mean "unclear"? Any good act is only by the grace of God. We are all sinners, and can only go to Heaven through repentance and suffusion with the grace of God. This grace leaves you if you reject it through mortal sin.
Your attempts to force a false dichotomy are pitiful. You must repent and be in full cooperation with the grace of God to enter Heaven.
The sexually impure will not inherit Heaven. Do not masturbate, repent, and beg Christ for the power to overcome your lust.
There's more than one sin. Sexual impurity isn't the only sin that is said to bar you from heaven.
If you're saying you have to be perfectly sinless from your last repentance to go to heaven then you are contradicting yourself and it's impossible to go to heaven since all men are sinners. So if you feel jealousy or greed or lust after a woman and then get hit by a car before you can repent you're going to hell?
Paul lists many more sins, sins that are hard to even be aware of until its too late, like greed, strife, jealousy, enmity, anger…
Let's put it this way, you must be as sinless as there is no apparent need for excuses. You must see yourself as honestly free of willful sin.
so you can still sin and get to heaven. you don't have to be perfect, ok.
yes, but you can't be aware you are doing it. If you are aware of sins and excusing them instead of repenting then you're in trouble.
involuntary, unwilled sin is not a sin you are responsible for. Just like you aren't responsible for the sins of your neighbor.
repent means you turn away from sin. It doesn't mean you need to feel anything in particular or flaggellate yourself out of guilt.
If a person commits a sin, it has to be willful and conscious.
Your attitude towards sin should be that you flee from it, in general, but if sometimes you fail you don't need to freak out and question your salvation.