“Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life; he who believes in Me shall live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die.” John 11:25
I’m reminded of the scene in the 1950 Martin Luther movie where Luther is talking to the head of his Romanish monk order and the guy says after Luther points to Romans about how the just shall live by faith - and the guy goes off on “Dr. Luther, what if we take away the indulgences, the relics, the pilgrimages, what will we replace these with?”
Luther responds, “Christ. Man only needs Jesus Christ.”
And the Romanish monk shakes his head and walks away.
It is the same debate that is going on in this thread today.
Man refuses to accept the gift because he thinks “All I have to do is believe?” He does not realize how hard it is to live a good Christian life even knowing it’s free. A person like Paul, who understood salvation to be a gift of God, freely given, who wanted to live more Christlike, was terribly bothered by his own sins (failings, shortcomings, character flaws, etc) because he was trying to live a better Christian life and still could not do it perfectly. He begged God to take these away from him and God would not do so. His sins bothered him greatly, but he did not fear that his sins cost him his salvation.
This is the picture of the maturing Christian, engaged in the process of sanctification while alive on the earth, no matter what denomination they are in. They are not the antinomianism “I am saved so I’ll keep sinning” person.