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NASB | Matthew 10:1 Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 10:1 Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority and power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. [Mark 6:7; Luke 9:1] |
Subject: Once saved, aways saved doctrine refuted |
Bible Note: Your startling announcement that the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer is refuted is followed by two examples, one of Judas Iscariot and the other of Ananias and Sapphira. If that is all the "evidence" you can muster to prove your case, my friend, I'm afraid you are going to be hard pressed to convince a jury. You will be unable to find scriptural proof that Judas was ever a regenerate believer. Jesus himself called Judas a devil [John 6:70,71]. That doesn't sound much like Judas had "the Spirit of God" as you say, now does it? And the singular case of Ananias and Sapphira as related in Acts 5 falls short of proof that they were truly regenerate believers, and even if they were, stops far short of refuting the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer. We are told only of what happened to them, i.e., "they breathed their last." What happened to them after that is in the province of God, and not revealed to us. One can't base a viable doctrine on such flimsy "circumstantial evidence" as you have presented. --Hank |