Subject: "Once Saved Always Saved" |
Bible Note: That was silly...you did a search and lose and salvation or lost and salvation weren't there??? There are probably a million other words that are not in there but what exactly does that mean? The bible cannot contain it all. With the indwelling Holy Spirit/Ghost, we shouldn't need everything literally spelled out for us. Do you want to do a REAL search? There are three different books that speak to this. No it doesn't have those two words side by side, but I do believe those in Christ are to have the spirit of discernment, wisdom, get divine revelation, and have something called plain 'ole common sense. The passages of scripture are as follows: 1. Jesus says a man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is NOT fit for the kingdom of God. If one is not fit just for "looking" back, how about all out walking away? 2. It is better to have never known Him than to know him and then turn away. That your end after knowing him, will be worse than your beginning when you DIDN'T know Him. And such a person is likened to a dog that returns to it's own vomit. 3. Or the one where it says many will say to Him, "Lord Lord," and He will say to them, "depart from me." They had prophesied in His name and cast out devils while on earth. How could they do that and still not make it in? Because they were ONCE saved is why. They were ONCE saved, but upon coming before the Lord on that day, they were told to "depart." They lost it somewhere along the line and never repented and picked "it" back up again. So what you're telling me is that a person who knew Christ as Savior and Lord, who then, for whatever reason, walked away, went back out in the world, began living a life of sin, never came to repentance and dies in that state is going to make it into the Kingdom? I don't believe that and will never repeat such a thing. I'll not have someone else's lost soul charged to my hands. |