[hellbender]

According to Protestant theology, you don’t go to heaven because you are sinless, but because the sinless one, Jesus Christ, paid the penalty for your sins, and you repented accepted him as your Savior. Of course, repentence can be insincere, but God knows the heart.

[Deltaforceeoo7]

I’ve been taught that once you are saved, you are always saved...Now, take King David. He was saved, loved the lord, did everything right, then he was lured into tempation and sin by Bathsheba which began him on the path of sin...When he realized how he had been living, He did not ask God to save him again...He ask God to Restore the Joy of his Salvation...So that’s what happens when a saved person falls from grace...He loses the joy of his salvation and needs to ask God to Restore the Joy of his Salvation..:-)

[hope]

Amen!! And when the Holy Spirit is within your heart through the acceptance of Jesus and His provision for our sins, it is our desire to please him.

Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Psalm 86:5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

[ladyinred]

EXCELLENT! I concur.