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Originally Posted by mgreigns
I am here to learn and eventually earn my place in Heaven one day!
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Welcome to the forum, M.G. Reigns!
The first thing you need to learn is that you can't earn a place in heaven. You can only earn a place in hell.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A wage is something you earn, something you work for. The Bible tells us that death is earned through sin. Everyone who will burn in the lake of fire, which the Bible calls "the second death" (Rev 20:14), will have earned his place there.
Eternal life, however, is a gift, something you haven't earned, something you haven't worked for, paid for by the precious blood of Jesus. You still have to keep every single one of God's commandments, though.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
But that's not really work because His commandments -- like never looking at a woman lustfully (Mat 5:28) -- are easy to keep.
1 Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.