How does one get into heaven?

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buffalo said:
Do what Jesus says.
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This question came up in a discussion with a “once saved, always saved” person. Your answer would make him believe that we (Catholics) think we can work our way into heaven (I realize that is not your intent). My answer is that we have to die in a state of grace.
 
bradwill911 said:
This question came up in a discussion with a “once saved, always saved” person. Your answer would make him believe that we (Catholics) think we can work our way into heaven (I realize that is not your intent). My answer is that we have to die in a state of grace.
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Jesus gives the formula that we a Catholics follow. My point was that it starts and finishes with Him.
 
buffalo said:
Jesus gives the formula that we a Catholics follow. My point was that it starts and finishes with Him.
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I know and I agree with you. I was merely presenting his argument. It seems like no matter how I answer him, he thinks Catholics believe that we can work our way into heaven.
 
bradwill911 said:
Try to answer in one sentence max.
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Will you permit me to count this as one sentence? :confused: 🙂​

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.”
-Revelation 22:14
 
bradwill911 said:
I know and I agree with you. I was merely presenting his argument. It seems like no matter how I answer him, he thinks Catholics believe that we can work our way into heaven.
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Anything here help:

SALVATION, FAITH AND WORKS
Faith Alone or Faith plus Works?
Jam 2:24 - a man is justified by works and not by faith alone
Jam 2:26 - faith without works is dead
Gal 5:6 - only thing that counts is faith working in love
1 Cor 13:2 - faith without love is nothing
Jn 14:15 - if you love me, keep my commandments
Mt 19:16-17 - if you wish to enter into life, keep commandments
1Tim 5:8 he who doesn’t provide for family worse than unbeliever.

Have You Been Saved?

Past Event (I have been saved)
Rom 8:24 - for in hope we were saved
Eph 2:5, 8 - by grace you have been saved through faith
2Tim 1;9 - He saved us, called us according to his grace
Tit 3:5 - He saved us through bath of rebirth, renewal by Holy Spirit

Present Process (I am being saved)
Phil 2;12 - work out your salvation with fear and trembling
1Pet 1:9 - as you attain the goal of your faith, salvation

Future Event (I will be saved)
Mt 10:22 - he who endures to the end will be saved
Mt 24:1 - he who perseveres to the end will be saved
Mk 8:35 - whoever loses his life for my sake will save it
Acts 15:11 - we shall be saved through the grace of Jesus
Rom 5:9-10 - since we are justified, we shall be saved
Rom 13:11 - salvation is nearer now than first believed
Cor 3:15 - he shall be saved, but only as through fire
1Cor 5:5 - deliver man to Satan so his spirit may be saved
Heb 9:28 - Jesus will appear second time, to bring salvation

Good Works
Mt 7:21 - not Lord, Lord but he who does the will of father
Mt 19:16-17 - to have life, keep my commandments
Jn 14:21 - he who keeps my commandments loves me
Rom 2:2-8 - eternal life by perseverance in good works
Gal 5:4-6 - nothing counts but faith working through love
Eph 2:8-10 - we are created in Christ Jesus for good works
Phil 2:12-13 - work out salvation with fear and trembling
Jam 2:14-24 - a man is justified by works & not faith alone

Judged According to Deeds
Rom 2:2-8 - eternal life by perseverance in good works
2Cor 5:10 - recompense accord to what did in body
2Cor 11:15 - their end will correspond to their deeds
1Pet 1:17 - God judges impartially according to one’s works
Rev 20:12-13 - dead judged according to their deeds
Col 3:24-25 - will receive due payment for whatever you do

Assurance of Salvation?
Mt 7:21 - not everyone saying “Lord, Lord” will inherit
Mt 24:13 - those who persevere to the end will be saved
Rom 11:22 - remain in his kindness or you will be cut off
Phil 2:12 - work out your salvation in fear and trembling
1Cor 9:27 - drive body for fear of being disqualified
1Cor 10:11-12 - those thinking they are secure may fall
Gal 5:4 - separated from Christ, you’ve fallen from grace
2Tim 2:11-13 - must hold out to the end to reign with Christ
Hb 6:4-6 - describes sharers in Holy Spirit who then fall away
Heb 10:26-27 - if sin after receiving truth, judgment remains
 
roselily said:

Will you permit me to count this as one sentence? :confused: 🙂​

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.”
-Revelation 22:14
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Of course, you can answer however you’d like, I just wanted to avoid the dissertation on salvation/justification/sanctification/ etc.
 
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