“ Christ is sufficient or He’s not. Of course He is. Only God’s sacrifice can pay the penalty of sin. Nothing else.”
Let me add for those stuck on the “my works will get me there” side of the argument, There will be rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ for the works knowing and unknowing we do in this life, but those works do not earn us salvation. That “work” is complete already in Christ.
And if it is Belief + Works, I sure feel sorry for those accepting Christ at the last moments of their life – not having time left for works.
Very well said.
The Lord has entrusted lots of things to us: money, natural talents, spiritual gifts, the saving truth of the Gospel. He expects us not just to conserve these things but to grow them. In the last supper discourse (John 15) He speaks of the disciples as bearing much fruit. The fact that such an individual was not focused on that particular message at the time of their death, does not rule out that during their life, they may very well have been generous in sharing their "talents" with others.