Are we saved? Why the EO rejects OSAS?

[Philothei]

YouTube - Are you saved? - an Orthodox Christian answer.

How secure we are in knowing that we are saved... Are we in our journey ..And Why we believe what we do ?

I think the fact that we walk with Christ right this minute shows we are walking towards it... The minute thought that that parallel journey starts to deviate and we start rejecting Christ or turning out face from Him we do indeed are in our way to abandon the ship called the "church" that indeed has its destination to our Salvation..We are saved both individually and through being members of the "boat" of Christ called the Church.
The ancient depiction of the Church after all was a "boat" Sometimes we fall off and sometimes we catch on and hold tight many times it is Christ or the people aboard the ship that through down the "life savers" to help us raise up again and get into the boat

The ship (bark or barque, barchetta) was an ancient Christian symbol. Its is the Church tossed on the sea of disbelief, worldliness, and persecution but finally reaching safe harbor with its cargo of human souls. Part of the imagery comes from the ark saving Noah's family during the Flood (1 Peter 3:20-21). Jesus protecting the Peter's boat and the apostles on the stormy Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:35-41). It was also a great symbol during times when Christians needed to disguise the cross, since the ship�s mast forms a cross in many of its depictions..

Ship as a Symbol of the Church (Bark of St. Peter) -- Early Christian Symbols of the Ancient Church

 

[ArmyMatt]

I think because salvation is put in past, present, future, and eternal tenses, that kinda slams OSAS, at least how the West views it.

 

[Dmitry R.]

How secure we are in knowing that we are saved... Are we in our journey ..And Why we believe what we do ?

We can't be secure that we are saved. Judas believed? Yes! Was he saved? No!
Once have been baptized we can continue to commit sins. Once committed a sin how we can be sure in our salvation?

The Bible is against the idea of OSAS.

1 Corinthians 6,9: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Are those words about non-believers only or about those who have been baptized as well?
Paul wrote his epistle to the church of Corinth. So he wrote to the church people.

Nevertheless in the same epistle we can find the confirmation that even brothers can commit such sins as written in previous quote.

1 Corinthians 5,9: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person

 

[MrJim]

Col 1:21 –Col 1:23 NKJV
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

It is a position held by a relative (though noisy) minority when examined against the tapestry of 2000 years of church history.