Exactly. Which is why nobody can get into heaven.
All it takes is ONE sin to damn us. If all we ever committed one sin in our entire lives and lead a perfectly holy life for the rest of it, it STILL wouldn't be enough. All it took was one sin for Adam and Eve to bring sin into the world and get them kicked out.
So, even if the rest of my life were perfectly pure and holy, I couldn't get in because it's too late.
James 2:8-11 8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
That's why it's not by our works that we're saved. Because we've already transgressed the Law and it's on our record. The only way to enter heaven is to have the record erased and that's what Jesus' death accomplished.
Colossians 2:13-15 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Hi, Catholics care...
No use to discuss our differences, nobody has budged in
their belief. This is why God has to act (the Great Warning *Rev 6:15-17*) to bring Christianity together and non believers to the faith.
Remember, you can begin to consider, to change on three
things of faith, #1, believe in the Eucharist, confession
to a Priest and in Mary’s help. Three means to the greatest
graces. On the last, you don’t accept it now but the Blessed Trinity has given Mary all graces to dispense. From the heart, it’s prophesied, do NOT go with those who will REJECT the 5th Marian Dogma when it is proclaimed.
Mary belongs to us all, you didn’t personally, stupid men rejected Our Lord’s mother to distance themselves from the faith, Roman Catholicism. You can have the love of both,
Our Lord and Mary. Mary is waiting to help you, you only have to ask her in prayer.
A friend reminded me, Protestants and Catholics agree, it is the power of prayer that brings conversion. And look,
in a message given a seer in Brazil, Our Lady says too.
April 15, 2012
...Pray, pray, pray for the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, for all the Clergy, for all the religious men and women, for all mankind.
Pray for the atheists and pagans, time is running out.
Pray for the Holy Church founded by Jesus Christ, unity and prayer.
Help the Holy Father the Pope to seek the sheep, who are away. You MUST NOT seek for them with WORDS, but with PRAYER, the prayer already contains strength to bring them. That’s why I call you to prayer, is to help you and to help your brothers. The power of prayer performs great miracles...