Suppose you had a box, If you look inside the box it tells you that you are saved and have eternal life.
If I have to CHECK the box, I am already sinning not trusting, not having faith in God.
Salvation is not the priority. When God commands I don't say well does this command give me anything?
God can command of me something that spells out certain doom and I'm going to do it because he said do it.
I'm not worried about whether I get salvation or not, I concentrate on doing what God says to do.
Original sin, we say one is dung covered snow rather then snow covered dung.
We say your good covered by evil that is cleansed off by Jesus. Rather then your evil given a good T-shirt/name tag and just passed for good.
"And how do we get saved then?."
Jesus Christ gives the PERFECT answer to that question.
Luke 10
25And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
26And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”
27And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
28And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.”
Notice the Lawyer is not born again or saved, Jesus is telling him how to get there.
Then the Lawyer pushes for Limited Atonement, Only qualified elect are neighbors.
And Jesus destroys it with Good Samaritan.
Only someone who needs a license to sin, that is a he has a sin he doesn't want to get rid of, will undermine Jesus Christ here and hop to twisted version of Romans.
Pretend the gospel is not found in the gospels. Its why its called the gospels!
People try to hide what Jesus says to do with who he is and what you are.