Please allow me to point out that unless people actually have the gospel of Christ, all the worship, singing, praying, service, giving, works, sacrifice, church building, denomination building, mission activity, and evangelistic activity can keep no one out of hell. How the denominations on their websites can profess salvation by faith alone (because that is the Protestant standard) and then go ahead in the same paragraph, or the next paragraph, or the same web page, or the next web page, or on the same website, and teach exactly the opposite, namely, salvation by faith plus repentance, is a wonder of double-talk contradiction. But now, this is the inescapable problem: Inasmuch as the denominations do this on their official websites for all to see, what does that mean for individuals? Individual Protestants will generally be fast to profess that salvation is by faith alone, but how many actually do have all their faith on Christ alone, or are many actually trusting in their own efforts to repent rather than in Christ alone, doing just as most denominations teach, but not as they profess. Even in conservative Lutheran (and Presbyterian) denominations that actually teach what they profess (I was a member of one of those), they do not explicitly tell the people not to divide their trust between Christ and other things (baptism, election, etc.); the result is that people there also are often unaware that they must not divide their trust if they are to be saved. Another indication that people are trusting in their efforts to repent is that no matter how many times you tell them to repent but not trust in that, they still accuse you of overlooking repentance as though they cannot understand how anyone would repent unless it would earn salvation; but why not just because God said to repent? Almost everyone feels saved no matter what they believe; the different religions of this world have their spiritual experiences; but the time is soon coming when all the sand castles will be coming down and only people standing on Christ will remain. -- http://roines.home.mindspring.com