The Bible says there is none righteous, and that we are dead in our trespasses and sins. Left to our own devices, we are on the road leading to eternal separation from God. We do not go up from damnation to neutral, because there is no neutral. We can't move from neutral to damnation either, because again, there is no neutral, thus, we do not go from neutral to Heaven, or from Heaven to neutral. If we start at the bottom (damnation), things look very different than if we pretend we start somewhere else. God has graciously provided a way for the lost, which we all start out as, to move from damnation to eternity with Him.
Sometimes people act like we all start with Heaven as our next stop, and it would take an awful lot to change that. But that isn't true--eternity with God requires something of us. Sometimes people act like we start in a neutral position and decisions we make will determine if we move up or down. But again, we cannot choose to go lower--we can't be moved down. We all start at the lowest point already, and the Bible is clear that everyone either spends eternity in Heaven with God or in Hell apart from God.
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift of forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast." Eph 2:8-9
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