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1 | One save always saved? | Rev 3:5 | philemcc | 78788 | ||
Hear are just a few verses dealing with salvation, they have been used to both support and reject eternal salvation, it would seem some are more interested in their opinions than the truth. Psalm 111: 9 He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever- holy and awesome is his name. 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. Phil 2: 12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. 1 John2: 24See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. Heb 6: 4It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Gal 5: 2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 2 Pet 1: 8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. 10Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Rom 8: 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." philemcc |
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2 | One save always saved? | Rev 3:5 | disciplerami | 78805 | ||
Dear Philemcc, Thanks for the work you've done here. God is not one to make idle threats. Every warning and every praise He communicates to mankind has a corollary outcome. When he warns Christians, He also implies they can lose their salvation. When he praises, He implies His faithfulness to carry that out to the end. The Revelation 3:5 passage is not an idle threat. Some people are so locked into their tradition that they don't see how man could be saved then lost: free will is the answer. I suppose it is actually comforting to some people to believe they are the "elect" of God [i.e. handpicked by a deterministic plan] and that it's impossible to ever be lost. I too believe I'm the elect, but only as all men are who choose to conform their lives to the will of God [i.e. Scripture]. I take comfort in knowing a God who truly offers [as opposed to a lip-service offer to a people deader "than a corpse at the bottom of the sea" to whom it is impossible for them to believe; see more on the strange doctrine of depravity and unconditional election] salvation to all men, men of free will. If they repent and are baptized in faith, God washes their sins away and promises to cleanse them as they walk in the light. Salvation is free, salvation is for all; it is up to men to hear, believe and obey the Gospel. God bless, Disciplerami |
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