That only applies if a person believe in once saved always saved. Another way of looking at it is, if you endure until the end, then you will be saved. The problem that I see with OSAS, is that people who obviously display power and athority and a relationship with God, when they turn from Him, because of a hurt that they blame Him for, it could not be said that they were never saved. I have seen people who speak in tongues, with the annointing, turn their back on God, because of wrongs done to them.
Well considering I disagree that speaking in tongues is still something that is done today, then I don't see how doing such a thing would make your salvation sure. Apart from the individual, only God knows who will and who will not be saved. Someone can go through all the motions,... ie: tithing, praying "spiritually", knowing the Bible inside and out, etc... but if they don't believe in the name of Christ, trusting in God's grace alone for salvation apart from works, then they were never saved. It doesn't matter how "spiritual" one appears.
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God gives authority to man over all creation in Genesis. And in addition, you never find an act of God in scripture without there first being a man that agrees with God to perform His will. And then you see the scripture for telling the end of time coming with Christ placing everything back under His feet and then turning the authority back over to God.
Well since Christ is God, I don't see how your argument is cogent. Furthermore, God giving man authority over creation does not make him all the sudden higher than God, because, essentially, that's what you are saying. Man's will is more important, or worthy, than God's. That's hardly a biblical assertion.
You see this is the difference between biblical Christianity and the rest of the world's religion's. Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Catholicism, etc.. are man-centered. It's called semi-pelagianism, a man-centered and not God-centered religion. That's the difference between "Arminians" and "Calvinists."
Your assertion that God has to ask man for permission to accomplish His will is neither biblical nor logical in the end. It no longer becomes God's "will" if man will not allow Him to accomplish it. Such is a fallacious and utterly false argument.
If God always had the supreme authority on the earth, then why does Jesus need to give it back to Him, after Jesus defeats His enemies.
Jesus is God. I hardly see that as a valid comparison to man. Are you equating man with Jesus and man with God? That's heresy. I hope that's not what you are doing.
Additionally, those men of God who turn their back on Him, as I described earier, would never have done so if they had know that it wasn't God's fault, since God's will does not rule the planet, man's does.
Where do you get this? Clearly not from the Scriptures because man's will is in bondage to sin. Is man's will superior to God's in this respect? I hardly think so. Man asks for God's permission to do things? Your God seems to be a very weak God indeed.
God is clearly sovereign over man's will according to the Scriptures:
1. Genesis 20:6 - Abimelech and Sara
2. Exodus 34:24
3. Deuteronomy 2:30
4. Joshua 11:19,20
5. Ezra 1:1-2, 7:27
6. Isaiah 10:5-7
7. Proverbs 16:33, 19:21, 20:24,21:1
8. Psalm 135:6
9. Others: Job 14:5, Psalm 65:4, 139:16, Proverbs 16:33, 19:21, 20:24, 21:1, Isaiah 10:5-7, 43:12-13, 45:7, 46:9-10, Jeremiah 1:4-5, Matthew 24:31, 25:34, John 15:19, Acts 4:28, 10:41, 13:48, 17:26, I Thess. 5:9, 2 Timothy 2:10 etc. and etc.