Of course, -- but they do so not merely because they have an intellectual assent to the Gospel but because having believed in the Gospel, they also make a conscious free-will effort to obey it in their works, and seek absolution from the Church when they fall. We are not saved by faith alone, the Holy Scripture teaches.
That’s your idea of the process. The point is that they come out the other end having persevered.
If we had a continuum that at one end says 100% God and the other end says 0% God, then you have them on the continuum somewhere in the middle.
I’d have them closer to the God end. But that’s just us talking process. Some have it 100% God and 0% human.
The bottom line remains that they come out the other end on the good side.
“We are not saved by faith alone, the Holy Scripture teaches”
Really? Not my Bible. No amount of works can save you it is through belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and HIS gift of Grace by that belief that saves you. Works are done in addition to as you are saved you strive to be more Christ-like.
We don’t need to get absolution from the Church. We can go right to God through our intercessor Jesus Christ and be cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb.