Subject: Can you loose your salvation? |
Bible Note: Bradk Again it is not sin that costs us salvation it is us breaking relationship with Christ. How can we be joint heirs with Christ if we deny His existence? How can we share in the glories of heaven if we despise God? Wouldn't that be a great place having someone hurl rocks at God every time He passes by. Many people use the analogy that once saved is like being in a family here on earth. We can do all kinds of things, even leaving the family but we are still children of that family. We carry the name. In a sense that is right. However if we start writing checks against the family's account the family for it's own protection will disown us. We may still carry the name but we are disowned. If someone who is saved (for the sake of this discussion) and then begins to demonize Christ for his own wealth. Or starts doing things that instead of glorifying God throws mud upon God's name I'm sorry but I see Christ will in fact disown them. Like I said sin will not do it alone we have to break relationship with Christ. He is our brother but if we do things that discredit our brother he will eventually pull away from us. From that I believe there is no recovery just as Hebrew 6 states. You say we must resolve this by looking at the whole Bible. Let us do. First the first children of God lost their salvation. Second all through the Old Testament we see people, nations that turn from God and are lost(Saul, Balaam, Korath to name but a few). In the New Testament we see example after example of men women that were in relationship with Christ but betrayed that relationship (Judas, Ananias Sapphira, to name just a few) Now we can discuss all day were they really saved or not. I don't know nor does anyone this side of heaven, however they did have relationship with the Christ and have appeared to have lost it. If one man, Adam, can reject eternal life having once possessed it then same has to be true of all men to be just as we understand justice. The real interesting part of this whole discussion is I really don't think a truly saved person can do those things. If you are REALLY in relationship with Christ I don't think you would ever consider breaking relationship. I think what we see happening is many who think they are saved are not. I believe that many feel they are saved because they acknowledge Jesus Christ and James clearly told us that is not enough. Jesus said if you love Me you will obey my commands. Many believe but few obey. Many are called but few are chosen. The way is narrow and I think many will never know how very narrow it is because they fell off long ago. I see many as the man at the wedding. They never put on their robe of righteousness but kept the worlds clothes on them. If I was to offer a guess I would guess about 10 percent of those that attend church/call themselves Christians have in fact their names written in "The book of Life". I think the teaching of once saved always saved is the biggest factor for keeping many of these people from finding the truth. They are comfortable calling Christ Lord being assured they are saved and can't lose it and living like hell on this earth. If you think about it, it is a silly argument. How far can I go before Christ disowns me. What craziness! Our question should be what can I do to please Him? We are called to be servants but we want waited on. We are called to pick up our cross and follow him but we want all the good things of life. We call Him master but don’t want anyone telling us how to live. We call Him truth but we want to define our own truths. I contend that no real Christian really wonders if his salvation can be lost he is too busy serving God to worry about it. EdB |