Will liars and thieves still make heaven?
Simple question!
If my name "-----" means 'thief' or 'liar' or 'unrighteous', then I cannot get into heaven by my own name. But if I call upon the name of the Lord (Acts 22:16) which means 'pure', 'perfect', 'righteous', then I will enter heaven because He let me use His name instead of mine. The church is the bride of Christ. She married (baptism) into royalty. When a woman marries a royal man, she takes on his last name, and becomes royal herself.
So if you lie you are named a liar. But if you are in Christ, and you tell a lie, it is wiped out instantly. It is the same as if it didn't happen at all. And if it didn't happen at all, you can't be named a liar, but named a Christian- someone covered by the blood of Christ. Someone IN Christ is free of sin because there is no sin in Christ- therefore if you are in Christ there is no sin in you. So, to answer your question, no, liars and thieves will not enter heaven, but Christians will. Christians aren't perfect, just saved, because Christ shares His perfection with them.
So is this a license to sin? Can I do whatever I want knowing that it will be covered? No! Because whatever does not grow dies. If we don't grow in Christ, and be transformed in the likeness of Christ, if we are inactive, we will be disqualified for the prize (heaven). It's not enough to get saved, you have to stay saved. We have to take up our cross daily, and rid our lives of sin. Yes, sometimes a Christ visits sin, but there is a big difference between visiting and living there. A Christian cannot LIVE in sin.
Romans 6:1 "What shall we say then, shall we live in sin so that grace can be more abundant? By no means! We died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ were baptized into His death?" We put sin to death when we got baptized. We buried our old sinful self in the watery grave. And we strive daily to keep the old self buried. We make mistakes and are forgive, having those mistakes washed away, but only if we live for Christ and strive to put away the misdeeds of the body.