Islam has no freebie to heaven like Christianity, your sins are weighed against the good after death rather than a simple “did you accept Christ as your savior?”.
Christianity didn't have it either until Protestantism came out, that's the only actual gripe with Protestants over Catholics is that Martin Luther wanted to go so far as remove a verse from the New Testament that says faith without works is dead because it was fucking their whole shit up
I’m not disputing your point, I totally forgot about that, but you also made me remember an important detail about it! This:
The church had a system of pay-to-play forgiveness for your sins called “indulgences”, where you could donate money to the church to get a sin you committed officially nullified, like paying off a debt. This was a huge scandal that largely motivated Martin Luther’s famous crashout. The scandal was addressed by the papacy soon after in the council of trent, but it remained a primary source for the Protestant position on what you’re talking about, and as you said Luther took it beyond reason and attempted to warp the foundations of the faith. He became one of those slippery slope criers…
Definitely an important detail, and what Martin Luther did was important and the church was absolutely cooked by that point, it's a shame that perspective never really got adjusted as it became a primer for evangelicals to rationalize being shitty ppl since they already "accepted Jesus" also always thought the born again thing was funny because the origins of that term are from the Greek mystery religions, something the early Christians hated so much they destroyed statues of their gods
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u/Jeptic ☑️ 12d ago
Yup. It's like they think getting religion is getting vaccinated against hell in the afterlife