Subject: once saved, always saved-Bible location |
Bible Note: Shalom WOS Thank you for your response, I do understand about the natural and wild branches. But that one verse in particular (22 I believe) talks about being cut off if one doesn't stay in the faith. "Cut off" when used in OT almost always is one of two things - either physical, literal death sentence or being removed from Israel. So, doesn't that mean that the "osas" view is faulty? Either you are a part of the tree or you are not (and in these verses we are talking about people (gentiles) that have at one time believed and then left the faith, right?). Not arguing with you, WOS, just trying to understand - once saved, always saved or no. Even M. Henry says the same thing, as I read it - "... That which ruined them was unbelief, and by faith thou standest; therefore thou hast no faster hold than they had, thou standest on no firmer foundation than they did...that is, continue in a dependence upon and compliance with the free grace of God..." Cheri |