Tho Holy Spirit is needed too, to get past potential human problems with the scriptures. I ought to know. I bumped my head very early on into one vexing problem that I couldn’t understand, till my head (figuratively) was bloody. It turned out that I’d been thinking on the wrong plane.
The scriptures presuppose a heavenly point of view, even though talking about affairs in both heaven and on earth. Learning what that point of view is (or if it is beyond our imagination, at least learning what it implies), is part of growing in Christ.
Even with that, there’s still camps of interpretation, such as the classic Arminian/Calvinist divide. I’ve ended up evolving to what some call mild Calvinist. But that’s a happenstance of history. When the Lord wove creation together, He didn’t come to any of us to direct Him how to do it, and so it easily embraces things that look like oxymorons from our natural worldly point of view. How can He infallibly destine and still extend to us a valid choice? To behold this is simply to fall down in awe. It makes any philosophical thinking cap simply go TILT. Embracing the paradox is the only way to progress, and so I go, confident in a good destiny, heartily beseeching people to believe!
Good works is a good thing but I believe those who think they will get you into Heaven is denial of everything Jesus did for us - as those who tried to keep following the old way were told, "Ye have fallen from Grace"....
God Bless again.