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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth. |
Bible Question: can anyone help me understand once saved always saved. I see some people say they are saved and once their fire for God is burnt out they go doing things that they did before they were saved, even worse. I keep looking at the scriptures of Rev.3:16 and Rev.21:8. I also see that the people that are saved will be judged for their works done on earth. I also read about backslidding in Luke9:62 and 2Peter2:20-21. I was once told that if a person is truely saved then they can't help but live there life for God. Can someone help me understand? |
Bible Answer: You bring up a questioning that is greatly discussed among christians from all Evangelical denominations. Permit me to sumerize your question in this fashion: Can one lose one's salvation? And if so, then how would one go about losing one's salvation? It is not because we are born again Christians that it means we will never comit a sin again for the rest of our lives. But since we have already been covered by the blood of Christ who has died for us on the cross, when we do sin we go back to the cross, each day in fact. Back to Jesus on the cross to be covered by His blood. Yes one can lose one's salvation after being saved, but only under a very specific situation. The answer to that is found in Marc 3: 28, 29. We read in Mar 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever, they shall blaspheme. Mar 3:29 But he, that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation. The question then begs to be asked, Why so then are all sins foregiven except the blaspheme against the Holly Ghost? Why is the sentence for such a sin, as the blaspheme against the Holy Ghost - eternal damnation? Because, blaspheme against the Holy Ghost is to attribute the glory and the power to the devil instead of to God. i.e. Of blaspheming against the Holly Ghost - attributing the glory and the power to the devil instead of to God: A pastor has been givin 2 weeks to live because he is about to die from cancer. This same pastor brings himself to his assembly's prayers and intercesions asking to be completely healed. His assembly then intercede for him, praying for a complete healing of their pastor's cancer. After such an intercession, the pastor goes and consults his medical doctor. The doctor declares the pastor completely healed from his cancer. The pastor then anounces from his pulpit "God" has completely cured him from his cancer, and does a healing call proclaiming them all healed in the name of God" from all of their deseases. Hundreds of people are then miraculesly healed from different deseases. And so then, the pastor proclaims that the healing having miraculesly happened in his assembly as been been performed by "God", and that "God" only has the glory and the power. Months go bye, after thousands of deseases having been cured in his assembly, and the very same pastor gets up one Sunday, stands in front of his pulpit and does wath is the equivalency to a spiritual about face saying: I told you God had healed me from my cancer, said the pastor. And I told you, you had then all been healed from your different deseases by God, said the pastor. Well guess what folks, said the pastor, I lied to you all..., said the pastor. It was not God but the "devil" who had healed me, said the pastor. And it is the very same devil who has healed you all of your deseases, said the pastor. The pastor then says: I, your pastor, says the pastor, now attibute all glory and all power concerning my own cancer healing, says the pastor, as well as all of the healing of all of your illness, says the pastor, to the devil, not to God... That was an example of what is a blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, what is attributing God's glory and power to be that of the devil's . The sin against the Holy Ghost is accompanied by the sentence of the danger of damnation. |