With Salvation comes the Holy Spirit of God into the heart of the cleansed spirit. But God is gentle for His burden is light. He will not force conformity but will work mightily when the broken spirit asks for guidance away from sin. Falling into grievous errors has hallmarked every Age of Church History.
Living the Christian life is God living in you, transforming your soul by a daily walk with Him. As Paul taught and the Church at Jerusalem sent in a letter to the new Gentile Christians, they would do well avoiding fornication and the food sacrificed to idols. As Paul discovered with the Corinthians, some of the Christians there were in error regarding those who had died in Christ. And Paul's third letter was to the believers in Thessalonika who had been led into error regarding the rapture of the Church.
Salvation is NOW, not at some future trumpet sound. The snatching away of dead and alive Believers happens at the trumpet. That some who are alive and remain shall be transformed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, testifies that they ARE saved awaiting the Rapture, for your mind cannot make repentance as quickly as the transformation will happen. The saved walk in faith, faithing in His promises as realized in their lives.
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>> “Without that broken and contrite spirit, the likelihood of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the saving is slim.” <<
Precisely!
It all depends on what your total goals are.
The carnality of the comment you are responding to was obvious.