I am totally convinced after thoroughly studying this for myself in the bible that Jesus will not let us go, providing we continue to want his grace, love, mercy and forgiveness.
I believe that we can let go of Jesus if we are saved and provided that we haven't hardened ourselves to the point that we eternally choose NEVER to come back, he will always take us back -and by that I mean, as a choice we deliberately continue despite God offering to take us back and freely offering his grace and forgiveness, to eternally reject him despite this.
I don't belive that anyone who wants to be forgiven and saved will be rejected by Jesus, even if this is after a long period where they have completely and utterly rejected him.
However I do believe that it is theoretically possible at least to eternally cancel out your salvation and deliberately choose to eternally give back God's grace and forgiveness and I believe that we will have thaty choice for all eternity (though there, there will be no opportunity to come back). I believe that God is a God of free will and will never take us as his prisoners, which is why he gave us the choice to depart from him in the first place. To be eternally secure in the arms of God against your will would be against freewill and we would eternally be prisoners of God.
I believe this because of personal experience and because of the many testimonies I have read of Jesus literally sending backslidden Christians to the gates of hell and only taking themn back when they cried out for mercy, of people having visions, personal visitations by Jesus where he gave them a final ultimatum in their live to come back to him, or lose him for all eternity and others who having come back after many years rejecting Jesus, have been told that it is their final chance or they're out.
I myself too have been clearly told by Jesus, despite going to a Church that believes in OSAS that a Christian can deliberately commit the eternal unpardonable sin, of deliberately eternally rejecting Christ and all that he did for us upon the Cross, I do believe that it is possible to cancel out our salvation. Nothing else in all creation can do it, or force us to do it, but we can deliberately choose to be eternally lost through our own free will, which I believe that God will never deny us for ALL eternity.
Nevertheless, I do believe in the concepts of being born again of God, being given a new spirit by God that cannot exist eternally without God- once we are saved, we will always have the desire in our hearts to come back to God even if we do give ourselves over to the old nature and world and fall away and I do believe in irresistible grace that a genuine Christian cannot resist the grace of God for ever and to be honest I don't believe that in reality, anyone truly born again of the Spirit of God has been or ever will be lost, despite it being theoretically possible- but I am not sure.
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I believe that we can let go of Jesus if we are saved and provided that we haven't hardened ourselves to the point that we eternally choose NEVER to come back, he will always take us back -and by that I mean, as a choice we deliberately continue despite God offering to take us back and freely offering his grace and forgiveness, to eternally reject him despite this.
I don't belive that anyone who wants to be forgiven and saved will be rejected by Jesus, even if this is after a long period where they have completely and utterly rejected him.
However I do believe that it is theoretically possible at least to eternally cancel out your salvation and deliberately choose to eternally give back God's grace and forgiveness and I believe that we will have thaty choice for all eternity (though there, there will be no opportunity to come back). I believe that God is a God of free will and will never take us as his prisoners, which is why he gave us the choice to depart from him in the first place. To be eternally secure in the arms of God against your will would be against freewill and we would eternally be prisoners of God.
I believe this because of personal experience and because of the many testimonies I have read of Jesus literally sending backslidden Christians to the gates of hell and only taking themn back when they cried out for mercy, of people having visions, personal visitations by Jesus where he gave them a final ultimatum in their live to come back to him, or lose him for all eternity and others who having come back after many years rejecting Jesus, have been told that it is their final chance or they're out.
I myself too have been clearly told by Jesus, despite going to a Church that believes in OSAS that a Christian can deliberately commit the eternal unpardonable sin, of deliberately eternally rejecting Christ and all that he did for us upon the Cross, I do believe that it is possible to cancel out our salvation. Nothing else in all creation can do it, or force us to do it, but we can deliberately choose to be eternally lost through our own free will, which I believe that God will never deny us for ALL eternity.
Nevertheless, I do believe in the concepts of being born again of God, being given a new spirit by God that cannot exist eternally without God- once we are saved, we will always have the desire in our hearts to come back to God even if we do give ourselves over to the old nature and world and fall away and I do believe in irresistible grace that a genuine Christian cannot resist the grace of God for ever and to be honest I don't believe that in reality, anyone truly born again of the Spirit of God has been or ever will be lost, despite it being theoretically possible- but I am not sure.
Sorry, I LOVE that smilie!
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