I agree. It is by belief in Christ, the object of our belief that we are immediately saved.repent and receive the Holy Spirit. Then we are free to live and all are sinners like Paul in Romans 7 but Jesus sacrificed one time for all that believe and we can not ever fall from salvation. It is wonderful to meet you and God speed.
oh my goodness, you missed something somewhere!!!Belief in Christ, in and of itself, is not enough to get you anywhere.
You cannot possibly believe, that if you believe that Christ is the savior and that He died for our sins,we can live life as we please with no obligations whatsoever....I don't think so. If you teuly believed in Christ, you would follow His teachings and follow the religion that He Himself founded.
You would rather ignore 1,600 years of teaching and truth and make your own rules as you go along. Like Luther, Zwingley, Calvin, HenryVIII, Joseph Smith, you pick and choose which true Christian beliefs that you follow.
Confession...well I don't like that one...infant baptism...well I'll just not go along with that....Transubstantiation, well that's just too hard to comprehend, marriage after divorce...well I really liked spouse #2 or 3...////see how easy it is to be a protestant!!! You get to make up your own rules as you go along and all that stuff about attending Mass EVERY Sunday is just too much work especially when the golf course summons.
wouldn't it be nice if we could really do that???