>>3727054>>3727065I believe in faith only for salvation, for we are saved by faith, for it is the gift of God, not by works, lest any man should boast.
Also, Hebrews 10 is constantly used to attack free grace by saying that if you live in willful sin there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. But in the broader context of Hebrews 10 it is also a chapter that supports the free grace position ironically enough. Like Hebrews 10:4. That verse had nothing to do with salvation. It's simply a statement that through ONE sacrifice not only are all our sins removed from us, but we are also made perfect through the indwelling of the spirit and any sin we commit after that is no longer us sinning but the spirit of sin that works through us by the nature of our sinful flesh.
So no, you don't have to "try" to work your way into heaven, the Bible strictly forbids that even in the Old Testament it was by faith alone. Abraham was declared righteous through his faith.
But let's say you apostatize and do not continue in Christ. Then you lose rewards in Heaven and are left with nothing, for those who continue in faith are given the crown of life. At the judgment seat of Christ we are judged by our works, but that doesn't determine whether we go to heaven, but rather what our role in Heaven and the world to come is.
Now as for "turns you into a god" you got me confused. You are made sinless, righteous and perfect through the holy spirit, for a man born of God cannot sin. Why? Because they are made one with God through the Holy Spirit. The flesh still sins, but we are made alive in yhe spirit, and any sin after that is not us, but the spirit of sin that dwells within us by the nature of our corrupt flesh.