aiki
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Your confusing OSAS with faith alone. Faith alone means we are not saved by our works but by having faith in what Jesus did on the cross. OSAS means a person cannot turn away from God once they have received the Holy Spirit but the Bible warns us not to quench or stifle the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 6:4 is one example.
I've never thought of OSAS in the way you define it here. It isn't that the believer is unable to turn away from God, but that God will not turn away from them.
Hebrews 6:4 describes a false convert, I believe, not a genuinely born-again person.
Our salvation is contingent on continuing in our faith. It is not a one time event. We must endure to the end to receive salvation. No one receives salvation until they die or judgement day comes.
A birth (physical or spiritual) is very definitely a one-time event. This is evident in the way the writers of the epistles refer to the salvation of the Christians to whom they are writing as a past accomplished fact.
Our salvation is contingent upon Christ, not us. Our faith doesn't make us acceptable to God; it is Christ's imputed righteousness - and only his righteousness - that makes us acceptable to God.
We must endure to the end, yes. But we will do so because we are indwelt by the Spirit of the Living God. He causes us to persevere; it is his work in us that brings us successfully to the end, not our capacity to stick it out with God.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-25
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
25 Brethren, pray for us.
Philippians 1:6
6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
Salvation is ours the moment we trust in Christ as our Saviour and Lord. It does not remain an uncertain, future event so long as we live.
1 John 5:11-13
11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
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