If your questions is how can one enter Heaven when one is a
sinner? Perhaps, below may help:
LK 24:45-48
45 He then opened their minds to understand the
scriptures,
46 and he said to them, 'So it is written that the
Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from
the dead,
47 and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness
of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from
Jerusalem.
48 You are witnesses to this.
Finally, it all boils down to if your heart truely repent or it
is just lips service? You cannot be going Geylang every week and
saying every week you are sorry without any real intention to
change the way of life that you know is wrong (if you believed that
it is so).
Just like if one said sorry for the sake of saying without
truely believing that one is wrong and making any effort to
change.
Another way to look at this is like a smoker trying to quite
because he knows that it is bad for his health. He tried but get
tempted to smoke again....but because he really wanted to quit and
is serious about it, he will be eventually be able to quit. He will
seek help and make efforts to change because he wanted to.
Not just by saying "I want to quit" everyday but continuing to
smoke "the last stick". Hope this make some sense.
well said.
repentence isn't the only solution, but turning 180 degrees away
from the past.
and yea, for the wages of sin is DEATH
Rom 6: 15-23
15What then? Shall we sin because we
are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to
someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you
obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to
obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves
to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you
were entrusted. 18You have been set free from
sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19I put this in human terms because
you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the
parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing
wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading
to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin,
you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things
you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have
become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and
the result is eternal life. 23For the wages
of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
in[b] Christ Jesus our
Lord.