'Such a simple thing is so perverted today.'
Same old 'earn' your way into heaven.
By stressing works you put the onus on the follower.
Thus straining at the gnat of perfection you swallow
the camel of self-righteousness.
You are a classic example, of which I spoke, one who holds to a perverted view. Tell someone in the church system that they must yield obediently to God and they cry "works" and accuse one of being self righteous.
I bet if Paul or Peter were to enter a church building today they would be kicked out for being self righteous and teaching a works.
Obeying God is not earning your way into heaven, it is simply doing what He told you to do. Keep my commandments, strive to enter that narrow way, pick up your cross, deny yourself, count the cost, go and sin no more, etc. Were these mere suggestions by the master? No, those commandments were the way to life. Just as the starving man in my example, those who refuse to DO will not enter the kingdom.
We receive grace for obedience.
It is through obedience that grace is not received in vain.
If there is no doing then no heart purity results and no salvation.
You will never be good enough. The only thing you attain
with that theology is self delusional 'rightness'.
While overlooking an innumerable host of sins you
didn't know you were guilty of.
A great example of a most common straw man. These deceived people build up such a high standard that no-one can keep and then say , "see, you cannot do anything," then use it to teach their DO NOTHING Gospel.
What did Paul write?
Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Obeyed from the heart. That is all God is looking for, a people who will obey God from the heart, obey Him by a faith that works by love. That is what matters, not never making a mistake.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Gal 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Gal 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but
faith which worketh by love.
Repentance and conversion are absolutely mandatory requirements that must be fulfilled before God will raise someone up to newness of life.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;