What counts? What counts for what, salvation?

And what scripture makes that plain?

You are not saved by emotion. You are not saved by how you feel about Christ. This modern-day deception has effectively found it's way into modern-day "churches" (501-C3), and not without help.

[color:"red"]"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"[/color]
Jeremiah 17:9

And self deception is the greatest kind.

If you believe you are saved by (or as you said, what "counts") is because of what is in your heart, you are in great error.

You are saved by faith.

[color:"red"]"For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God"[/color]
Ephesians 2:8

[color:"red"]"But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."[/color]
Hebrews 11:6

Our faith is revealed by what we do. If we think we have faith and are not keeping His commandments, we have no faith and deceive ourselves.

[color:"red"]"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."[/color]
James 2:26

[color:"red"]"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock."[/color]
Matthew 7:24

[color:"red"]"If you love Me, keep My commandments."[/color]
John 14:15

[color:"red"]"but if you turn to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though you were cast out to the outermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather you from there and will bring you to the place that I have chosen to set My name there."[/color]
Nehemiah 1:9

What "counts" is faith, and our faith is revealed by what we do. If you want to know yourself, look at what you do.