Another C n P

Last one for the week. Hehe.
Q.If I die with unconfessed sin will I go to heaven?
I took this question from a quiz on a Calvinist Web Site in which 19 true or false statement are presented in what they call the "basic doctrine quiz." I took the liberty of cutting and pasting the twelfth one from their web site along with their answer. I would like to get your response to their answer so as to be able to counter it. Here it is:

12. If I die with unconfessed sin, I will not go to heaven.

A. FALSE. This is a Roman Catholic belief from which the doctrine of last rites, and purgatory stem. Protestants, however, have objected to this idea because of the nature of the work of Christ as revealed in the Scriptures. For those in Christ, all sins have been forgiven, past, present, and future (Heb 10:10-14; Rom 8:1, 29-39). Not only that, but those who trust in Christ are also seen as perfectly righteous in the sight of God because of Christ’s own righteousness and conformity to the law (Rom 5:19). And Christ also intercedes for us when we do sin (1 Jn 2:1-2).

Answered by Peggy Frye,Catholic Answers Apologist
We can agree that Christ nailed our sins to the cross. But neither Christ, nor the Apostles, nor the early Church Fathers ever taught that after our redemption (baptism) we remain free from sin (there are exceptions-infants, the retarded etc.) and will go to heaven immediately when we die or when Jesus comes for us.

Rather, Paul in Romans 6:22 says: “But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.” He’s saying that after baptism, there’s on on-going process of sanctification that ends in eternal life. Sanctification is a process….not a one time event.

To believe that all sins have been forgiven, past, present, and future by simply “accepting Jesus into your heart” is to presume upon God’s mercy.

Venerable Louis of Granada warns against presuming upon the merits of Christ's death:

“Many presume upon God's mercy, persuading themselves that they can be saved by faith and hope without charity.

If you rely upon His goodness to pardon you, notwithstanding your innumerable offences, what can be more base than the ingratitude with which you presume upon His mercy, which, instead of exciting you to love Him, only leads you to offend Him?

You say that God's mercy is great, since He died on the cross for the salvation of sinners. It is indeed great, and a striking proof of its greatness is the fact that He bears with the blasphemy and malice of those who so presume upon the merits of His death as to make His cross, which was intended to destroy the kingdom of evil, a reason for multiplying sin."

Like the prodigal son, we are free to lose our inheritance, and walk away from the Father. He is always there to receive us, but we must repent before we come home. For, “we cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."1 John 3:15 ….To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state …is called "hell." Catechism no. 1033

Not only is there no scriptural evidence to support the belief that one can be saved without worrying about sin, there is no historical support for it either. If the assurance of salvation teaching is central in the Christian faith…then why had no one heard of it before the Reformation? We have thousands of manuscripts from the Early Church Fathers, and in them we find all the central teachings of Christ, but no mention of assurance of salvation. Clearly, it was not taught by Jesus or his disciples.

Instead the Bible says: "I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8), but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15). Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)."