Subject: can you lose your salvation |
Bible Note: Zach You joking right? You use the quote and you don't even know what it says?!? Here is a brief excerpt. Copied from The Gospel According to Jesus by John MacArthur Zondervan Publishers 1989 pg 97-97. This willingness to accommodate so-called carnal Christians has driven some contemporary teachers to define the terms of salvation so loosely that virtually every profession of faith in Christ is regarded as the real thing.3 Anyone who says he has “accepted Christ” is enthusiastically received as a Christian, even if his supposed faith later gives way to a persistent pattern of disobedience, gross sin, or hostile unbelief. One anti-lordship writer perfectly distills the utter absurdity of his own view: “It is possible, even probable, that when a believer out of fellowship falls for certain types of philosophy, if he is a logical thinker, he will become an ‘unbelieving believer.’ Yet believers who become agnostics are still saved; they are still born again. You can even become an atheist; but if you once accept Christ as saviour, you cannot lose your salvation, even though you deny God.”4 That is a damning lie. No one who denies God should be deceived into thinking that because he once professed faith in Christ he is eternally secure (cf. Matthew 1O:33—”Whoever shall deny Me ... I will also deny him” and 2 Timothy 2:12—”If we deny Him, He also will deny us”. The numbers represent footnotes and footnote 4 lists R. B. Thieme, Apes, and peacocks or the pursuit of Happiness (Houston: Thieme, 1973), p. 23 Again Zach you owe both Joe and John MacArthur an apology. Next time don't quote someone unless you check it for yourself which you evidently did not do this time. Putting words into another persons mouth is distasteful and makes the one who does it appear foolish. EdB EdB |