Question 6
The Correct Answer Is: FALSE
Matthew 16:26: "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
Matthew 7:21-23: "23 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"
Since the Garden of Eden, the Devil has been deceiving mankind on everything from the seriousness of sin, the nature of God, and the solution to sin. One of his deceptions is that God will accept 'good' people, even if they don't obey Jesus. He has convinced many that a good deed cancels out a bad deed. In other words, it will even out the scales. When it comes to the problem of sin, the weight of sin is too great for anything that we can do, to move the scale even a fraction of an inch. Only the blood of Christ can move the scale, but it doesn't do so by balancing the scale. No, it does so by removing the sin. With the sin gone, we are able to be in perfect union with God, sinless in His sight due to the blood of Christ. But we have to obey God in faith. We can't simply say 'Lord, Lord' or pray some prayer, we have to do the will of the Father. For a non-Christian, that means to believe in Jesus, repent of our sins, confess our faith and be baptized for the remission of our sins. (Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Romans 10:9-10, Acts 22:16. For the Christian though, when we sin, we do not need to be baptized again, we simply need to repent of our sins, and confess those sins to God, who has then promised to forgive us our sins (I John 1:9).