There is no...."ok Christ shed His blood for me, so now, all i have to do is not lose my salvation for the next 60 yrs.
"hope for the best".
So, that is not how God's Grace works.
God's Grace is the 'Gift" of "Salvation"....and when you try to replace this gift with "now here is my part, i must DO THIS"....then you have rejected Grace and replaced it with SELF.
So, i can open a New Testament and show you plenty of verses that i could use to try to justify a false theology of God saved me, and now i get to do the rest if i want to go to heaven.
But, why would i do that?
Why would i try to use the bible to deny the "Finished work of Jesus on the Cross", by trying to find a verse i can use to try to prove that i have to do what has already been completed.?
"behold,... salvation is only finished if i promise to be good and abide"
"behold,.... ETENRAL LIFE is only ETERNAL, if i do my part, as God's BLOOD isn't enough, see, let me show you my verses"..
I read through this thread and I get the impression that
you are totally missing the argument being made about
"
abiding".
The Bible teaches that those who are regenerated demonstrate
that by producing "
fruit"... some thirty-fold, others sixty-fold
and some one hundred-fold.
So sanctification is an
EVIDENCE of salvation... I do not see
anybody arguing that repentance produces regeneration, instead
they are arguing that repentance is the RESULT of regeneration.
They are arguing that salvation will RESULT in sanctification.
That sanctification is the "
fruit" of salvation.
The only person that I see arguing that WORKS result in
salvation is YOU creating a strawman argument that nobody
has presented.
Reading through the thread it seems (to me) that you are
creating strawman arguments to deflect from the fact that
that real salvation RESULTS in us "
abiding" in Him...
or "
keeping His Commandments".
1Jn 2:3 -5
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep
his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth
not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
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