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1 | To whom do we belong? | Bible general Archive 1 | New Creature | 73448 | ||
The reason I haven't answered this question is because you didn't send it to me. Your question was as follows "If a person can turn away from God, I guess they can turn back again and again and again. Question, How many times did Christ die on the cross? How many times does He need to pay the price?" the answer to your question can be found in Hebrews 6:4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6:6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 10:28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 10:29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 10:30 For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE." 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:32 But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, 10:33 partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated. 10:34 For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. 10:35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. 10:37 FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY. 10:38 BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM. 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. All verses from the NASB Blessings New Creature |
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2 | To whom do we belong? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 73766 | ||
Hello and Greetings, New Creature. This is in reference to the much-disputed passage, Hebrews 6:4-6. If the author is speaking of the elect, those whom God has truly regenerated, and if it is they who fall fall away of their own will and accord, then he is teaching, is he not, that they can never be regenerated a second time? [There is no record in Scripture of anyone being saved more than once]...... Or, if the author is speaking of something other than genuine regeneration, then from what are they falling away, since the unregenerate has received no salvation away from which he can fall?..... Is there another explanation that is not only possible but which does not butt heads against other passages of Scripture that would seem to teach something that conflicts with these arguments? Might not the writer of the Hebrew letter be employing a didactic hypothesis here for the sake of illuminating and affirming, as he does in v. 19, how sure the regenerated believer's hope really is, calling it "an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast"? The author gives further indication that he may have been speaking of a purely hypothetical situation that did not pertain directly to his immediate readers in v. 9, because he says, "But, beloved, we are confident of better things (than what he described in the foregoing passage) concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner." This passage is frequently used as a so-called proof text to disprove the biblical doctrine of the eternal security of the believer, but it is in truth a text that is in complete harmony with and corroborates other texts that teach the perseverence of the saints. If one believes that, in the substitionary death of Christ on he cross, He gives eternal life to those who by the grace of God through faith in that Person who hanged and died upon the cross, they must of necessity believe that that life which He gives is indeed eternal, thus not being subject to cessation or revocation by Him who gave it. Thus, salvation is of God alone, and it is not and cannot be conditioned by anything man does or can do solely of, by, or for himself, either before or after regeneration. --Hank | ||||||
3 | To whom do we belong? | Bible general Archive 1 | John Reformed | 73828 | ||
Excellent Hank! Clear, concise and irrefutable. Thank You, John |
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