Better yet, he’s driving in a 20 mph school zone, at 22mph, even though his speedometer reads 19 mph, has a heart attack and dies immediately without confession. Heaven or Hell?
Better yet, since St Peter has the keys to the gates, regardless the decision, what happens if one of those decisions happens to not line up with the Plan of God?
Of course these simply expound upon 3 classic blasphemies of Divine Justice.
1) To confess sins to other believers. They cannot absolve you from sin or return you to fellowship with God.
2) To feel sorry for your sins and substitute that sorrow for repentance as a method of returning to God and counting on that for forgiveness.
3) To go through some system of penance or works for forgiveness.
Our self-righteousness and human good is dead works, Heb6. All human works are excluded from salvation through faith alone in Christ alone.
All human self-righteousness is excluded from the unique
Plan of God for the Church. Immorality is also excluded.
God’s righteousness does accept our righteousness in faith alone.
No one is saved because they are good.
No one is saved because of self-righteousness.
No one is saved because of their works.
Wood, hay, or stubble, versus Gold, silver, and precious stones ... the Glory of the Lord will sort it all out IN HEAVEN prior to returning to this wrath drenched Earth.
Says WHO??
The Book states...
Revelation 21 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
12 And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gatestwelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 13 On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. 21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 25 And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there. |