Now, if you were to read that three word sentence in the original Greek, it's one word, tetelestai . It's an interesting word that Jesus shouted from the cross there. In fact, some archaeologists a few years ago dug up a tax collectors office that was really in tact, it still had the tax records in there and everything, and there were two stacks and one of them had the word, tetelestai , on the top. These people don't owe anything anymore. It was a bill that I couldn't pay myself, it's a bill you can't pay - none of us can.
Sin is a whole lot more than just breaking some religious rules.
It's taking this life that God was supposed to run and running it our way instead. It's my way instead of God's way living. That is Hell. Our religion doesn't even come close to covering it. Eternal Life is described by God as a gift, and the gift isn't yours until you take it.