During the first Passover, did good people die if they stayed in the street?
Ans: Yes
Did bad people live if they got inside a house with the covering of blood?
Ans: Yes
Conclusion: it is not the goodness or badness that counts, but one’s acceptance of the refuge (or atonement)
One doesn’t earn it with good deeds, one just accepts it.
I have continued throughout my life to hold fast to the belief that true salvation cannot be lost. It comes as a cleansing stream, washing over one's life, creating out of the old a new life in Christ. And yet, I have lived in the stumbling, bumbling presence of sin my entire life. Praise God I do not carry the burden of my sin. My singular hope is in the knowledge that I was born again many, many years ago.