It’s about believing God.
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Very simplistic. Many people and even the devil herself believe God (or think they do). But as we all know believing God depends on the correct understanding of what God has revealed. If one’s understanding is in error then obviously one is not believing God but instead is believing only a misunderstanding.
Moreover, believing God and doing His will are two entirely different things. Many people believe God but knowingly defy His will. We call such people sinners, and Jesus has told us explicitly that these people will not enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt 7:21).
I suspect such arguers / pleaders are those who will try to plead their deeds when Jesus will turn to them and state 'Depart from me, I never knew you.'.
The Will of God is plainly and succinctly stated BY JESUS in John 6, yet you want to add anything your fertile mind can conger up (and it is really your father sending the 'yes-buts').
The Gospel of Grace includes zero of your works and all of God's Mercy. He sees the inward you and His word is powerful to divide even soul and spirit. He has made His Gospel of Grace so simple only a proud fool would try to add to what God requires. And what God requires HE has told you in John 3 and John 6. Argue with Him at your eternal peril.
And the problem with that is...?????
The gospel is not complicated.
Believe and you'll be saved.
John 1:10-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 20:30-31 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 16:27-31 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
2 Corinthians 6:2 For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Romans 10:9-13 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Religion make s salvation complicated and Roman Catholicism makes it even more complicated.
God made it easy enough for a child to do it and it cuts across cultural and intellectual lines. It's a message that can be understood by anyone, any where, at any time throughout history, literal or not, rich or poor. Doesn't matter..
That would be all of us.
Sinners, who are the unredeemed, do not inherit the kingdom.
Saints who sin, OTOH, do.