Really? And no comments on the points, Pauline points, which you dismiss and sweep under a carpet?
I dont really pay any attention to you trying to rewrite Paul's text to fit your heretic's commentaries.
So......Let me do this for you., so that you will never be able to say you were not told...
Q.).....Why can't a person go to heaven?
what is the problem?
The problem is..they have sinned., and from that spiritually fallen position, they have no righteousness of their own and can't get any.
Now, this sinner....can go to India and live 68 yrs feeding street children, and then they die, and go to hell.
Yet, they were good.
They lived a good life. They helped the poor, they tried to be like Christ.
Now, they are dead and in Hell.
Why?
Because God is HOLY, and they are NOT.
And nothing you can do, will make you Holy.
As only God can make you holy.......Only God can make you Righteous.
Water baptism certainly can't do that for you., as the issue is in your heart, and the pool water can't solve that PLACE.
So, how then do they die and NOT end up in hell, Johann?
A.) God has to solve their un-righteousness issue.
Remember?
Heaven has no SIN in it, and you can't go there unless you are Righteous.
We dont have any righteousness of our own, and God is Righteousness, and you can't belong to Hm, unless you are Righteous, also.
Yet, the person has sinned, they are not righteous, and they have to be "made righteous" to go to heaven.
How did God solve that for them?
How?
He sent Righteous Jesus to the Cross and Righteous Jesus became their sin.
And when they believe in Jesus, God takes Christ's Righteousness and "imputs" it to them..
They BECOME IT, as BORN AGAIN.
God literally takes Christ's Righteousness and causes their born again Spirit to have become it.
Now, they are become "the righteousness of God ... IN CHRIST".
see that?
That is a
CHRISTian...
This means "to be in Christ".
That is your Salvation........This is how God GIVES IT TO YOU.
Now, look at all your literature and find out if the person(s) you are following is teaching that GIFT OF SALVATION< or if they are teaching you to try to earn it, or work for it, or confess sin to try to keep it.
If you look with right eyes at what i wrote , and compare it to Calvinism or the Catholic Doctrine, or any Legalism.. your commentaries, or online sites...you will see that there is such a contrast, between, the Gospel i gave you, and what you have been taught., and certainly what. you will often here on this forum that parades around as the "gospel"., but is literally "anti-Cross".