so, no matter what we do, how evil we are, how degenerate our lives, how many people we molest, how we steal, pillage ,etc etc...we die and go straight to Heaven....good luck with that theory.
Past tense. No matter what we've done.
No redeemed believer will continue to live like that.
For one thing, they have a new nature that finds sin revolting.
For another, God will not let someone continue to live like that.
That kind of thinking reveals the appalling lack of understanding on the part of Catholics as to what the new birth is all about and what having a new nature and the Spirit of God living within one, is like.
It's clear evidence that the person who thinks like that has never experienced the new birth otherwise they would know that someone born again does not, and could not think that way.
The born again believer has the mind of Christ, has been given a new heart and new mind that does NOT think that way.
Today’s terycarl reading assignments:
Psalm 103:12
2 Peter 3:9
Romans 6 1:4
God is great. Enjoy.
You have just described Catholicism - except it detours sous to her mythical "purgatory" - which treats even proabortion, prosodomite public figures as members in life and in death, like Teddy K., without any manifest repentance, but impenitence.
And as what one does constitutes the evidence of what one believes, Rome thus testifies that what she really believes is that what really matters is that you die a RC, with the majority being liberals (versus evangelicals) who at least support proabortion, prosodomite public figures.
But if a Teddy K became a conservative evangelical then real concern from his soul would be shown, the the preeminence of Rome is the priority, not holy faith.
This your church and these are your members, from whom you cannot separate unless you be in schism, as some RC's choose, and thus you must own it and them.
Romans 5:20-21
The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Nope, nothing here about needing to be "perfected."