[LearsFool]

A lot of people think that the narrow path requires you to be perfect in all these things.

They didn't get that idea from the Bible.

Refusing to do is quite different from trying and falling short

Indeed it is. The Master knows His disciples will stumble from time to time.

And that is all there is to it.

Indeed. The faith that compels the disciple to obey his Master is the faith that saves. Such faith causes the striving, the diligent effort, the working that gets one in the narrow door. Any other sort of faith is, as James said, dead.

"Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." - James 2:17

[Bryanw92]

>>Such faith causes the striving, the diligent effort, the working that gets one in the narrow door. Any other sort of faith is, as James said, dead.

Those works are the fruit of obedience, not the source of salvation. You do these things out of gratitude for the gift. They are not conditions required for a reward.