Bible Question: once saved always saved? |
Bible Answer: The Eternal Insecurity Version (EIV) IF one could fall from grace and lose one's salvation, then the following Scriptures would have to read as they do here in order to line up with that "truth". (I added and deleted words to the following verses to demonstrate how they would have to be changed IF it were true that one could lose his salvation. I mean no irreverence or disrespect toward the Bible. I'm not the one who needs to add to or take away from the words of the Bible in order to make it line up with my beliefs.) John 5:24 (KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath NOT everlasting life, and MAY OR MAY NOT come into condemnation; but is passed from LIFE UNTO DEATH. John 10:27-29 (KJV) My sheep CANNOT hear my voice, and I know them NOT, and they MAY OR MAY NOT follow me: [28] And THEY MUST EARN eternal life; and they MAY OR MAY NOT perish, and ANY man is able to pluck them out of my hand. [29] My Father, which gave them me, is NOT greater than MAN; and ANY man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. Philip. 1:6 (KJV) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you MAY OR MAY NOT perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:4-5 (KJV) To an inheritance CORRUPTIBLE, and DEFILED, and that FADETH AWAY, NOT reserved in heaven for you, [5] Who are NOT kept by the power of God. The above misquotes are absurd, aren't they? But they are no less absurd than the attempts to explain away these verses as they actually appear in the Bible. |