It appears that they think they can reform the old sin nature and get it to stop sinning.
They can’t.
That’s why we’re given, by God, a new, sinless nature, one that is alive spiritually and is without sin.
Then when this body of ours dies and the last of our sin nature is gone, all that’s left is the new sinless nature we were given. The one that is already seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Catholics talk about getting to heaven and finding out when they die if they made it.
God tells us that if we are His, born again believers, we are already there seated with Him. We were transferred into the kingdom of the Son he lives when we were saved.
“It appears that they think they can reform the old sin nature and get it to stop sinning.”
It reminds me of the old Jewish leadership of Jesus time thinking that if you are born into the faith (Abraham’s seed) that’s good enough. We know from Holy Scripture the Jew and rcc’s are still wrong.
They do indeed think they can it’s because they live in the flesh and not by the spirit. That’s why they worship by touch, taste, smell, feel, and idols.
“God tells us that if we are His, born again believers, we are already there seated with Him. We were transferred into the kingdom of the Son he lives when we were saved.”
“Work a little harder slave you might be good enough”
And that’s why we are “FREE” and they are still slaves to sin and the grip of the LAW.
I think, if someone waits till they die, to see if they are going to Heaven or Hell, I would say, that is close to an iron clad guarantee that they will end up in Hell, Then what will they do? It will a lot easier to get into Hell, than it will be to get out.