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Good day,
Professor Bruce Ware addresses the question:
In Him,.
Bill
Professor Bruce Ware addresses the question:
In Him,.
Bill
No, but continued refusal to repent (when convicted) does.
Salvation requires that you must follow Jesus. Persistent refusal to do that (after some unknown grace period) annuls Salvation unless/until you resume following Him again.
Jesus taught this in John 15:1-8.
No. It was more of a response to the thread's title. (I will go back and look at the video, later.)Did you get that from the youtube presentation?
Good day, Carl
Nothing.....
Was Paul wilfully sinning when he said in Romans 7 that he loved the law of God in his heard but found another law in his body that caused him to do the things he didn't want to do, and not do the things he wanted?
In Calvin's Institutes there is a very interesting comment. He says that people can be deceived and have their faith corrupted, but their basic faith in Christ is still on that solid foundation, and it is because their faith is on the solid foundation of Christ, that a deceived person will eventually recover and his head will come back into synchronisation with his heart.The issue he did not touch on was that a believer with genuine saving enduring faith can be deceived, led astray, fall into serious sin for a period and still recover because He puts boundaries on our behaviour if we are truly His.
Of course it does...how can anyone not know that?
Example:
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.
Pay close attention to the term "Clearly", and it is just that, and should need no explanation, but knowing the OSASR's like I do, and their ability to attempt to deceive, well...
If you want to tell us they never had that "saving faith", then look again, they had "true faith" or just faith is really all they needed to say. And if they had faith at one point, they had to fall away form it in order to abandon the faith....meaning they fell from salvation...simple
That's just one of many, you know, the verses the clown on the video completely left out.
Was Paul wilfully sinning when he said in Romans 7 that he loved the law of God in his heard but found another law in his body that caused him to do the things he didn't want to do, and not do the things he wanted?