@tengumatingpress@poa.st Just speaking from personal experience, if you encounter someone in need and you callously turn them away, it causes your own heart to harden. It makes sense, because you're putting yourself first over them, right? Well putting yourself first is diametrically opposed to putting God first. If you don't act on your faith, it is likely shriveled, like an atrophied muscle. I don't buy in the once-saved-always-saved notion because - again - salvation is dependent upon knowing Jesus, not just saying his name once and then forgetting about him. If you go through the steps as a child but then refuse to love your neighbor, you've hardened your heart and in doing so shut Jesus out. That's something that Jesus warned about, a lot. But he was also very repeatedly clear that faith is the thing that saves you. How you nurture faith, what inspires it, what can snuff it out, that is all much more nebulous than many autists would prefer, but we at least know that much. I would also suggest looking at the way Jesus treated the Pharisees, up to and including whipping them for their behavior. He denounced the ones who made a great show of praying publicly, he denounced the ones who had a gaudy parade to show off donating so much money. Again and again, he denounced the people who did the right acts but were not right in their hearts. Jesus was extremely consistent about that.