A Fundamentalist View of Hell

[TurningIntoDavid]

Also: Isn't repenting a work? And didn't Paul say in Ephesians 2:8 and 9 that "by grace are you saved through faith and this not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast"? I don't mean to be too pedantic, but I've seen the ways people have tried to stretch repentance into not being something we do, and they just don't "work." (Pun unintended until preview)

Simply, either
(a) God saves us because of what we do or fail to do, or
(b) God does not save us because of what we do or fail to do.

Further, either
© Repenting is something we do, or
(d) Repenting is not something we do.

Most Christians accept (b) and reject (a), and the apostle Paul seems to do both rather firmly. The truth of © and falsehood of (d) seem obvious to me. It seems to me, then, that you think that if your friend's husband died today then he would go to hell for all eternity because he has failed to repent, yet at the same time hold (b) in your other hand, believing that God does not save you because of what you do or fail to do. (I'm assuming that you accept (b); perhaps I should not be so presumptuous).

Doing good things doesn't matter, and God saves me in spite of my sins, but sends you to hell forever for yours.