Man will not be made perfect until enters the kingdom heaven in the age to come.
If man were made perfect in this life then there would be no need for confession but confession is taught as a Christian practice by both John (1Jo 1:9) and James. (Jas 5:16)
I would hope you understand that none of those exercises make us perfect. In confession, contrition, repentence, we are recognizing and acknowledging the hard facts of our imperfections.
But we do not eliminate them by those exercises.
We are not "all good and perfect" until we fail, and then get our next fix at the altar.
No one will enter that paradise of God in this life.
The life of God in Christ IS in the here and now. We have as much as we can take in. The Life and Glory of His Life is however monitored, parceled out, according to "how much" we can take on and take in. Whatever life we do have is limited by our current state and status. As Paul shows, we are both dead and alive, simultaneously. Col. 3:3. This is hard territory to maneuver.
And consider Jesus' words at Luke 17:10: “So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’” (NASB)
Eternal life is a gift which God gives to those who believe EVEN THOUGH they still sin.
Rev 2:1-7 tells us that those who are faithful and stay the course will be given the right to eat from the tree of life WHEN they enter paradise.
Worthiness of the bearer and Worthiness of the Giver. There is no worthiness in and of the bearer. Never was. Never will be. Your presentations, as is the presentations of most "freewill" and "works" based salvation postures is that one "must"
in and of themselves EARN. This is not even remotely possible.
In Gods Eyes, a man, in and of themselves, is NOTHING. When God is "introduced" into the picture of man, then everything changes. It is no longer a question of "just and only the man."
John 3:27
John answered and said,
A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Galatians 6:3
For
if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
It is not a question of being deserving.
It is a question of being obedient and faithful.
Ah, yes. Now we cut to the heart of faithful obedience. Here is a look at faithfulness.
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days:
be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
We ditch our own life. That is faithfulness unto death. Not that we, as dead men, do anything or earn anything.
Philippians 2:8
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
The GIFT of God is eternal life.
A GIFT is not something you deserve; it is something that is graciously given.
And therein is the circular reasoning you employ. One one hand, claiming that 'faithful obedience' earns it's own way in the door. And on the other, claiming it gifted.
You do understand these are conflicting claims?
The idea of "deserving" eternal life is not taught in the Bible.
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Nor is 'earning' it taught. Salvation and continuing in (unmerited) Grace is exactly as proposed. An unmerited GIFT than can not be taken back.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And
God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
And, meanwhile, back at the religious corral, everyone is busy trying to steal it, take it, earn it. The more we work from the factual seat of NO MERIT, the more Grace we are given. And such have NO interest in stealing it or earning it. They started with nothing, and become even less, until it's a reality.