[kosta50]

If you don't choose to do the works God prepared for you to do, Christ will not do them for you.

Alex, don't you understand anything? :) This is how it works: you are born again and you accept Christ. Christ pays for your "bills" you owe God, and you get a VIP limmo ride to heaven—guaranteed. You are done. You don't have to do anythging. And guess who gets to carry your luggage? :)

[annalex]

VIP limmo ride to heaven—guaranteed

That is why Protestantism is not merely scripturally wrong, but socially harmful.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This is how it works: you are born again and you accept Christ. Christ pays for your "bills" you owe God, and you get a VIP limmo ride to heaven—guaranteed. You are done. You don't have to do anythging. And guess who gets to carry your luggage? :)

The point is not that you don't "have" to do anything. The point is that for the first time you will want to do something "God-pleasing" because we are told in the Bible that "anything not of faith is sin."

Further, Scripture tells us over and over that the only work that saves anyone is the work of Christ on the cross, which permits His righteousness to be imputed to the sinner.

Otherwise, you're just boasting, contrary to Paul's instructions in Eph. 2.

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" -- Titus 3:6

Seems pretty clear to me.

[HarleyD]

Alex, don't you understand anything? :) This is how it works: you are born again and you accept Christ. Christ pays for your "bills" you owe God, and you get a VIP limmo ride to heaven—guaranteed.

Well, I thought that when you were born again old things have past away and everything become new as you become a new creature in Christ. What you are implying is that really nothing changes. It's an intellectual exercise.