1) That you can go to heaven by your own works, and merit yourself eternal life. That you can please and move God to remove your sins away from you by some action of yours. That God will forgive you your sins by the amount of your penance and good deeds.
2) That you can go to heaven by having a superficial, man-made, intellectual, false faith in Christ, that does not prove itself by works of love, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. That God doesn't mind if you continually live in unrepentant sin and ungodliness for all your life as long as you confess that you believe in Christ. That you can have a dead faith without works and still make it into the Kingdom of God.
We will do well to avoid these two lies from hell, and ask God that He give us true faith in Christ always, that proves and expresses itself through deeds of love.
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