Christian : Some people are afraid of the idea that we are saved only bu what Jesus

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has done for us. They say? if our salvation rests in Christ's righteousness and not in our own what's stop us from continuing in sin? How would you respond to that concern?
 
Romans 6
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

15What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We don't sin anymore because we are not slaves to sin but now are slaves to righteousness.
 
I would tell them that that's not true.
When we are saved we repent of our sins. Which means we try to stop sinning, and overcome sin.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. (2 Peter 2:19-21, ESV
 
I would warn them to be sure that sin will find you out. God is not mocked. We will still reap the results of willful sin even though we will not lose our salvation.
 
Yes, according to most Christian demoninations you only need to believe that Jesus died for you sins to get to heaven. Quite a loophole, huh? You can lie, cheat and steal or anything and still get there. I said "most" Christian denominations. Not all. For example, Catholics believe you must confess those later sins and do penance for them.
 
All saved believers are still sinners. Yes, even those believers in Jesus that murder others, are still saved and going to heaven (1 Peter 4:15). Jesus paid for all sins in His death on the cross, and then Jesus rose from the dead. The only way to get into heaven, is by believing in Jesus alone for salvation (John 3:16).

Anyone can come up with ridiculous and fake "scenarios" to try and "test" the truth, but the truth remains: The truth about Jesus is that the only way to be saved and to get into heaven and avoid being sent to eternal hell, is by believing in faith alone that Jesus, who is God, died on the cross for our sins as FULL PAYMENT for all our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe this and you will be in heaven, no matter what!
 
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