Forget the manmade religions of this world and know this:

• There is a God!
  He is the Almighty & Intelligent Designer of the Natural World we all inhabit.
  
  
• He Loves Us.
  He gave us life!
  He put us here to rule ourselves and to care for His works of creation on the land & in the seas.
  He provided us with everything we need to sustain ourselves.
  He gave us the ability to reason & create our own works, and to be fruitful & exponentially reproduce after like kind.
  
  
• We Have an Enemy.
  He seeks to steal from us, to kill us, and to destroy this natural world. And he does this through deceit and lies.
  
  
• But We Can Overcome!
  This is how:
  
  
  1. Seek the truth & align ourselves with it.
  2. Learn how to live in accordance to the Natural Law & Order and how to lovingly cooperate with our fellow man.
  3. Walk out what we learn without ever yielding the truth.

NOTE: Many of the religious will claim we can't be pleasing in the sight of God because of the sin of Adam. But according to the book of Genesis, it is possible to please God. This is demonstrated through the lives of Adam's sons: Cain, Abel and Seth.

All you need to know is that when you mess up (which we all do from time to time), you simply need to recognize the error of your ways -- 'fess up (to yourself & your Maker) what it is that you've done wrong & correct yourself. That's it.

Decide to do better and walk out that decision every day of your life to the best of your ability. This is what it means to rule yourself, and this is what it takes to become perfect. You can do it!

See my advice on how to succeed in this day & age: Post-2020.