Question:
If one is a non-Christian and tries very hard to become one and God sees it, would that person go to heaven or hell?
Answer:
No one will ever be saved by “trying hard.” “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us” (Titus 3:5). It is when we come to an end of trying and cast ourselves totally upon the grace of God and the completed work of Christ on the Cross, that we can be saved. “When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6-10). Cry out, along with the tax collector, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” (Luke