lem, I think you have a misconception. Christianity is not about drinking and being a virgin. None of us are strong enough to totally trust in God's word. I don't totally trust it and that's obvious from the way I live. I have never repented perfectly, I have never believed perfectly. And really, dwelling on things like how well we repent, how well we trust, and how well we avoid "drinking" is part of the problem. Christianity is not about us finding our way. You asked about people who are in between - not hellions but not obeying every commandment. Forget hellions and "every commandment" - not one of us has ever loved God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength for 1 second, all of us have made a thousand idols out of everything imaginable and that is most definately enough to send us to hell, and it should, and it would. The reason the devout Jew is wrong, and the devout Muslim, and the devout Hindu, is because they are just as much a sinner as the rest of us, and they are rejecting the only means of escaping the penalty for that sin. The world isn't about comparing religions, and about underage drinking, and about perfect repentance, the world is about the glory of God - and since we are His creation we have to live for His glory which means always obeying Him and always loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. None of us do - not the Muslim, not the Jew, not the American teenager, and not the Christian. The only one who did was Jesus, and then He died like a sinner because He became a substitute for sinners. The reason Christianity leads to heaven and all other "religions" lead to hell is because none of them offer the holiness that we need to enter heaven. That perfect holiness only comes through Jesus, and the only way you can have that is to repent of your sins (which means to hate sin, to be sorry for it, and to turn from it, and no one does that perfectly) and to believe in Jesus, and that doesn't mean believing that He lived and died and rose from the dead, Satan believes all that. It means forsaking your own efforts at winning God's favor and thinking you can get to heaven because you aren't that bad and realizing that Jesus and His atonement and resurrection is the only hope for you, and taking Him as your Lord and Savior. No one is "strong" enough for that, it takes the work of God in your heart.
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