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1 | Can you lose your salvation? | Eph 1:13 | 1cheech | 187797 | ||
We recently had a question come up in our weekly bible study and we are split50-50 on the answer and seek proof in the Bible. Can you lose your salvation? yes or no and where do we find the answer(s). Thank You. It would be helpful cause tonight is the study and we have been seeking divine intervention. |
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2 | Can you lose your salvation? | Eph 1:13 | Psalm 25 | 187798 | ||
Greetings 1cheech, This debate could go on and on with many scriptures trying to prove either side. I always refer to Ephesians 1:13 as my proof text. In the Greek where we have the phrase "you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise," this indicates a one time action in the past. Those who are genuinely born again, have been sealed, by the Holy Spirit, before they actually were saved. To be sealed by God, through the Holy Spirit, can not be "unsealed." If it is not by ourselves we get saved, then how could we then "keep saved?" It's either all of God or it's not. Jesus said, "all that the Father gives me I lose none." If God sent His Son to save us and picked us up out of the sea of sin, would He then leave it up to us "to stay in the boat?" |
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3 | Can you lose your salvation? | Eph 1:13 | Lookn4ward2Heavn | 187808 | ||
Ps25, You said, "Those who are genuinely born again, have been sealed, by the Holy Spirit, before they actually were saved." Unless I am reading it wrong, the verse in the KJV actually reads the opposite: "after ye believed, ye were sealed." The NAS reads: "after listening to the...gospel...having believed, you were sealed." This verse, at least to me, shows God's act of sealing in the Holy Spirit as occurring after one listens and believes in Christ and not before. |
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4 | Can you lose your salvation? | Eph 1:13 | Morant61 | 187812 | ||
Greetings Lookn! Excellent pickup! The action of the main verb (you were sealed) occurs after the action of the participle (having believed) in Eph. 1:13. This is why the KJV actually translates it as 'after'. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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