You appear to not have read what I wrote. Christ did not "pay" anyone with His death on the Cross, neither the devil nor His Father. He defeated that which was brought into the cosmos by Adam's sin --- death. It is not about "pleasing God" in Orthodoxy. It is about theosis, that is, becoming like Christ in everything but the essence of God (anyone teaching that we become in some way associated with the very essence of God is teaching heresy).
Theosis is that which man was created for. It was God's design to create "little gods" ("God became man so that man might become god" St. Athanasius). This was the plan in Eden which Adam derailed. The Cross restores mankind to God, strips the devil of his wrongly gotten loot (our souls) and gives us back Eden so that by participation with the Holy Spirit in our lives, we can advance in theosis. This is the ancient teaching of the Church which goes back hundreds of years, long before the heresy of "faith alone" was invented by Luther and the Reformers.
We do not create our salvation. Christ alone did that on the Cross. But we do participate in it through our cooperation with the Holy Spirit in the manner in which the Church has established - fasting, prayer, almsgiving, and good works. All of these nourish what St. Paul called "the new man in Christ" within, and starve to death the passions with which we struggle.
I would encourage you to do some reading and study of the ancient faith known as Holy Orthodoxy.
Peace and Blessings to you also.
That is not what you said.
This is what you said.
"Jesus didn't "pay" anything."
You are free to change your statement. But do not allocate my words to your new statement.
You live in a world of balance. Always trying to balance on the tightrope of did I lose my salvation? Did I gain my salvation back? How long have I been without my salvation? Because to you, salvation is not a miracle. Anyone could do it. And you do it daily. Or have you found perfection within yourself?
We were with God. In the Garden. But we were not Gods. Lest they become like us???
We cannot be gods. We can have the covering of Jesus, his righteousness, over our filthy rags. So that the Father sees us through Jesus. Not us directly. Because we sin. There is no way we can be joined to the Father in any other way because we sin. Jesus is that mediator for us. Always defending us so we never lose our salvation. Else what is a mediator for? Jesus wins as a mediator for us some days, and not other days, as he sits at the right hand of the Father? Success, failure, success, success, failure failure....
Your orthodoxy does what with the word Eternal? Make it less than eternal? Like from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, never knowing your salvation? So no one is assured of Eternal Hell dying as a non-believer, and no one is assured of Eternal Heaven/Righteousness/Salvation as a believer?
There is a lot of Eternal in scripture.
[Mat 19:16 KJV] 16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
[Mat 25:46 KJV] 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
[Mar 3:29 KJV] 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
[Mar 10:17, 30 KJV] 17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? ... 30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
[Luk 10:25 KJV] 25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
[Luk 18:18 KJV] 18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
[Jhn 3:15 KJV] 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
[Jhn 4:36 KJV] 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
[Jhn 6:54, 68 KJV] 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ... 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
[Jhn 10:28 KJV] 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
[Jhn 12:25 KJV] 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
[Jhn 17:2-3 KJV] 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
[Act 13:48 KJV] 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
[Rom 1:20 KJV] 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
[Rom 2:7 KJV] 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
[Rom 5:21 KJV] 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
[Rom 6:23 KJV] 23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[2Co 4:18 KJV] 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
[1Ti 6:12, 19 KJV] 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. ... 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
[2Ti 2:10 KJV] 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
[Tit 1:2 KJV] 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
[Tit 3:7 KJV] 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
[Heb 5:9 KJV] 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
[Heb 9:12, 15 KJV] 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us]. ... 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
[1Pe 5:10 KJV] 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
[1Jo 1:2 KJV] 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us
[1Jo 2:25 KJV] 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, [even] eternal life.
[1Jo 5:11, 13, 20 KJV] 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ... 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. ... 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
[Jde 1:7 KJV] 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Salvation is eternal.
Peace and Blessings