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Bible Note: Hi stjames, That’s very interesting but it appears that there is some sort of a contradiction at work here. You suggest that you are saved by something you have done, namely baptism and taking the Eucharist yet on top of all this you claim the following. You believe you can loose this salvation since you suggested the following, “Absolutely, through sin.” From your answer, it “doesn’t appear” as though you have acquired God’s “everlasting salvation” as of yet. Although you do have something that very closely mimics God’s eternal salvation, except what you have is perpetuated by and sustained by you, instead of God, because you believe you can loose it. I see a vast difference at work here that looks like a compromise between a religion at work and relationship that’s already completed. Just what sin is it that you think you could commit that would cause a person, which is a child of God, to loose their salvation; once they have been born into God’s family? It could only be a sin that Jesus neglected to pay for when He was on the cross; and to think such a thing would be the height of personal arrogance! The salvation that God gives us is based on His character and mercy not our puny works of “self” righteousness. God’s underserved mercy in action is called grace; it’s unearned and undeserved. We are only right in God’s site when we place our “entire hope and faith” in what the Son did for us on the cross; not some superficial sanctimonious function that takes place in a church service. Ephes. 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 1. As a child of God, through FAITH, in the person of Jesus Christ, God has saved me from the penalty of sin. God’s work is eternal not something that I do and can lose. 2. As I live my life in time, taking in Bible doctrine while under the controlling influence of God’s Holy Spirit; who was given to me as a seal. This happened the moment “I put “all of my faith” in God’s Son, Jesus Christ: from then on God is at work delivering me from the power of sin in my life. 3. At the point of the death of my body or the rapture, which ever occurs first, I will be delivered from the very presence of sin. It’s all a work of God and He gets all the credit!! I can’t gain any points with God because of anything I deem respectful, God is only impressed with the work that His Son did and it’s all a grace operation. 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. God’s work plus man efforts equal Lost for ever. God does all the work and God get all the credit! 2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. CDBJ |