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Why do you believe the Bible is the Word of God? Upon what grounds do you believe the Bible is the Word of God?

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. Therefore, there must be a judgment where the judge will decide if there is that which is necessary on your part to enter into life. As in any proceeding, there will be that which testifies in favor of or against any individual. The only requirement for salvation is to be found as one who believed God and therefore it is accounted unto the one who believed for righteousness that they did not posses. "I had not known sin, but by the Law..." Romans 7:7 Those unable to understand the Law, (children, the mentally disabled) are covered by God's grace and are saved. Well said.

Your approach here is that sin is exclusively involved in doing, but the real problem is not one so much of doing but rather being. Yes, you should not do acts of sin, but the real problem is the make-up of a person's core inner being. Humans are spirits having a temporary physical experience. However they are fallen spirits, and by virtue of the fallen spirit being separated from God, when the spirit leaves the body, if still separated from God by its fallen nature, goes to the realm of fallen spirits. Since spirit is eternal, the fallen spirit stays in this realm forever. While people should do good and not commit acts of sin, this alone does not change a person's inner fallen nature. The solution involves removing the inner fallen nature and replacing it with a new inner nature that is connected with God. Then when the spirit leaves the body, the person goes to be with God, since she no longer is a fallen spirit. Think of sin not so much as what a person does, but rather something that a person is. ( I know that sin is also an action, but stems from a person's nature)