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John 5:24, KJV: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall NOTcome into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."
You fail to understand that when Jesus says “He that heareth my word” is in reference to obeying what Jesus says. For obviously if somebody listens to a person and does not actually do what they say then they are not really hearing that person. So those who believe on Jesus and does what He says has everlasting life and they shall not come into condemnation, etc.; Also see Matthew 7:26-27.
You said:John 3:16 KJV: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him SHOULD NOT PERISH but HAVE everlasting life.
And you gotta keep reading. John 3:20 says all who do evil hate the light.
You said:John 6:37-39 KJV All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again on the last day. John 6:47 KJV: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I already addressed this post with you before.
You said:Hebrews 10:14 KJV By the which will (will of God) we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins FOR EVER, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
And you gotta keep reading. Hebrews 10:26 says if we willfully sin after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins.
You said:Romans 10:10-11 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Right, you have to keep confessing Jesus to others as a part of salvation that is why you would not be ashamed of Jesus. Also, if you read Romans 11:21-22, it says for us to continue in his goodness otherwise we can be cut off just like the Jews were cut off.
You said:If you are trusting in your good works to save you, God calls that sin or iniquity and if you don’t repent, this is what you have to look forward to.
I don't believe in Works Alone Salvationism. I believe we are initially and foundationally saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior and in believing in the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. But make no mistake, the gospel call is... God has chosen us to salvaton through sanctification of the Spirit and a belief of the truth (See: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14).
You said:Matthew 7:22-33 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
It was not because of their works as to the reason why they were cast out by Jesus. It was because they worked sin or iniquity. They justified a sin and still be saved type belief. How so? Jesus said in a few verses down (verses 26-27) that everyone who does not do what He says is like a fool who built his house upon the sand and when a storm came, great was the fall of that house. Jesus did not make an example of how we should not have done what He said and to just trust in the finished work of Christ.
You said:Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all OUR righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Right, and as I told you before. Read verse 5.
You said:Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Who is Paul talking to? Those who love God and those who are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). Jesus says if you love me, keep my commandments (John 14:15). Paul says in 1 Corinthians 16:22 that if any man loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed.
You said:Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it NO MORE of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Again, Romans 11:6 is in reference to the Jews and their false Works ALONE type belief and Paul is not referring to the necessity of the work of faith that follows after being saved by God's grace (See: Romans 11:1-2).
You said:Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that NOT OF yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Right, Ephesians 2:8-9 is referring to Initial Salvation and Foundational Salvation. It is basically saying we are not saved by “Works ALONE Salvationism” (Which would be by Man Directed Works) without God's grace. For verse 9 is the kind of work that a man would boast in himself by doing it. But verse 10 switches gears and talks about a completely different kind of work. It refers to God directed works done through the believer in the Sanctificaton Process because these are the kind of works we were created unto Christ Jesus to do (after we are saved by God's grace).
You said:What about those who backslide? Hebrews 10:38-39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But WE (Those who are saved by trusting in Jesus) are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. If we are in sin - Hebrews 12:6-8 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
I don't honestly believe that Belief Alone-ism leads any believer to be truly chastened. Correction only makes sense if one knows that sin can destroy a person's soul in the afterlife. But if I knew that no sin can separate me from God, then how I live would not really matter (even if I was chastened). You implied George Sodini was saved by the passage you quoted. Where was his correction or chastisement?
You said:Ephesians 1:13-14 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, (having believed you were) ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the PURCHASED possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Again, we know that other seals can be broken in the Bible. So the seal you talk about is not a padlock or a bank vault. Hebrews 3 talks about how we are not to harden our heart by the deceitfulness of sin whereby we would depart from the living God.
You said:John 10:28-30 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.
Read the context. Verse 27 (John 10:27) tells us the kind of sheep that will have eternal life and never perish. It says these kind of sheep are the kind that FOLLOW Jesus.
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