Subject: Can a person push God too far?? |
Bible Note: Scribe: You wrote: "I often wonder exactly what my baptist friends mean (not saying you are baptist) when they say similar statements." --- I assume you are referring to my statement about the eternal security of the believer. --- Wonder no more. I'm a Baptist [SBC] and I will tell you. We teach that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and are secure in Christ forever. Scriptural references: John 5:24; 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom.5:9,10; 8:1, 31-39; 1 Cor.1:4-9; Eph.4:30; Heb.7:25; 13:5; 1 Pet.1:4,5; Jude 24. ......... Yes, indeed I was referring to New Testament teaching when I posted about backsliders, although I used the word "Scripture" and should have used "New Testament" instead. The word "backslider" appears in the Old Testament 16 times in the KJV, 12 of them in Jeremiah. It appears only twice in the NASB, however -- in Prov. 14:14 and Jer.49:4. In most of the passages in which the KJV uses "backslider" the NASB uses either "faithless" or "apostasy." The word does not appear in the New Testament. --Hank |