[Forest Keeper]

Understanding all the finer points is where the complexity is found, but not in the message of salvation. It always goes back to one thing, FAITH in JESUS our LORD and SAVIOUR.

AMEN, brother! :)

[stfassisi]

no one should struggle to merit his way into Heaven.

Perhaps you should read the lives of the Martyr,s and Saints and you will see that they DID struggle to merit their way to heaven.

Those struggles were God's Blessings and will for them, they embraced them because they loved God's will above their own ,even if it meant torture and death!

I wish you a Blessed Evening!