(May 14, 2020 at 10:54 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I don't seem to remember restitution, or even penance, being a requirement. I thought you just had to proclaim your belief in god and ask for forgiveness...that's the get out of hell free card. Of course, you have to really, really mean it.
it's not. which is why i said i dont fully agree with gae blongna.
and it is a little more than what you describes unless you thin God is a dummy/can be fooled or forced into granting you salvation per a loop hole you think you found.
you do ask God for forgiveness you acknowledge Jesus having died on the cross to cover you sin. and you got to alter your life like those two things mean something. don't have to burn down your house and start over, but you can pretend those words alone will save you. God will put on your heart the evils you must deal with first. work with the ones you can chip at the ones you cant right away.
If you need help you need proof seek him out on his terms and he will show up. but keep in mind to whom much is given much more is expected.
The more you do here the greater your life there.
if you try and get in the last minute Jesus describes them as having survived a great fire with singed cloths on their back and nothing more.. Who wants to enter heaven homeless?
