Perspective. Justification relates to our position with Jehovah/YHVH, our God, and Christ's God.
Hi Dartman, perspective requested, do you believe that Jesus Christ is God (like His Father and the HS are), or do you believe He is a created being, or a lesser "deity" of some sort of another?
Also, if you don't mind, here are a couple of other questions that I have about your post. You said:
When we sin, and do not repent, our name is "blotted out of the book of life" (Rev 3:5), we are no longer justified (Heb 10:26,27); UNTIL we repent, and confess our sins in prayer;
1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
So God, with daisy in hand, watches us from on high saying, "I love them. I love them not. I love them. I love them not........"?
Is that how things worked in your family, with your earthly parents? Was/is their love for you performance based (like you're saying that God's "love" is for us), or did/do they love you simply because you're their son, come what may?
Do you still love your kids, even when they mess up/fail to obey your every word to them, or do they have to "earn" your love to deserve it/for it to continue?
Also, have you ever wondered why God describes the first two "ingredients" (so to speak) of love as
1. patience and
2. kindness ..
1 Corinthians 13:4? If God's love for us, His children in Christ, is based upon our performance/obedience, what need/purpose is there for either patience OR kindness
Back to your post, while I can see how a case could be made for losing one's salvation based upon Revelation 3:5/Hebrews 10:26-27, they say nothing about getting it back, do they? (1 John 1 says nothing about either). If fact, Hebrews 10 says quite the opposite, doesn't it
Hebrews 10
26 If we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
Is that how you would describe a true Christian, as someone who, "
goes on sinning willfully"? Or is that, perhaps, the description of someone who "claims" to have become a Christian at some point in their lives, but never did?
This is the same thing that the principle passage (used by those who teach that salvation can be lost) says, isn't it?
Hebrews 6
4 In the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
That's the problem with these two passages (for those who believe they teach that salvation can be lost), they say way too much, don't they?
The real question is, do either of these passages actually teach that salvation can be lost, or are they referring to people who, while they may have come 'close' to being saved*, never actually were?
*(They were 1. part of the visible church 2. had heard/seen all the information/evidence needed to understand the Christian faith/their need for a Savior, but 3. never truly believed)
While the true nature of the people being addressed in the passages above remains a bit of a mystery, one thing is made perfectly clear, if someone (who is truly saved) can lose their salvation, they will NEVER get it back!!
Yours and His,
David
Hebrews 7
25 He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.