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Apologetic said:It is not a doctrine of insecurity! It's about staying united with Christ! How can you even try to think that there is any salvation outside Christ? Yet this is what you're saying when you teach people don't need to stay in Christ to get to heaven.
Yes, I know that if I die this very second that I will go to heaven, because I have the Son, and he who has the Son, has life.
It doesn't matter if people think it's a fair game. Many people think it's much more comfortable to think that there is no literal hell as well, that people just get annihilated when they die if not saved. That something is comfortable doesn't mean it's right.
1 Corinthians 5:1-5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged F14 already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
If my salvation doesn't hang on Jesus and Jesus alone, I have no hope
Godzchild said:Sorry but Jesus himself said - that NO MAN can pluck you out of your father's hand. Did he lie?
But just because no man can pluck you out of the Father's hand doesn't mean you can't get up by yourself and jump out of it by your own will.
WhyAjani said:Let's take this situation for an example...
Let's say this man discovers Christ through a life of hardship. He's a very intelligent man who is often a skeptic. Well he finds Christ and dedicates his life to him for 10 years. He was saved. Until he comes across to someone to feed him lies about how there is no evidence for Christ. His skeptic nature kicks in and he walks away from Christ because of this evidence.
He was saved from the heart. It says once you are saved you are pre-destined and you cannot be taken away from him.
So if this gentlemen is a full blown athiest now, is he still secured in heaven?
"And let's say in another situation someone was saved and 10 years later they live a life of sin."
What will happen?
holo said:This is where I think it all goes wrong. IMO he doesn't help us, he has already done everything that needs to be done. He doesn't help us become righteous, for example, he IS (our) righteousness.
Godzchild said:Sorry but Jesus himself said - that NO MAN can pluck you out of your father's hand. Did he lie?
What about when he says "I NEVER knew you"? He didn't say he knew them once and now he doesn't know them anymore - he said he NEVER knew them. He also says he calls his sheep and his sheep hear his voice and FOLLOW HIM. It sounds to me like, if you are his sheep then you will follow...if not then you were NEVER his sheep.
Those who fall away are not God's children and NEVER WERE. If they were then they would have been kept by the power of God and would not have fallen. If they fall then it is manifested that they were NEVER one of them.
No one can lose eternal life - eternal life is eternal life that's why it's eternal.
If you add anything other than the gospel of Jesus Christ (good works to get to heaven) then you are not saved - that's what the bible says. You either believe it or you don't. You're either saved or you're not. You have eternal life or you don't. There is no 'saved one minute not the next' salvation. If you have been set free then YOU ARE FREE INDEED - Jesus doesn't leave room for argument!
"Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and present you faultless before the presence of his Glory in exceeding joy". <---IF you are his sheep then he will keep you and your place is preserved for you in heaven PERIOD!
QUOTE=Godzchild]Sorry but Jesus himself said - that NO MAN can pluck you out of your father's hand. Did he lie?
What about when he says "I NEVER knew you"? He didn't say he knew them once and now he doesn't know them anymore - he said he NEVER knew them. He also says he calls his sheep and his sheep hear his voice and FOLLOW HIM. It sounds to me like, if you are his sheep then you will follow...if not then you were NEVER his sheep.
Those who fall away are not God's children and NEVER WERE. If they were then they would have been kept by the power of God and would not have fallen. If they fall then it is manifested that they were NEVER one of them.
No one can lose eternal life - eternal life is eternal life that's why it's eternal.
If you add anything other than the gospel of Jesus Christ (good works to get to heaven) then you are not saved - that's what the bible says. You either believe it or you don't. You're either saved or you're not. You have eternal life or you don't. There is no 'saved one minute not the next' salvation. If you have been set free then YOU ARE FREE INDEED - Jesus doesn't leave room for argument!
"Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and present you faultless before the presence of his Glory in exceeding joy". <---IF you are his sheep then he will keep you and your place is preserved for you in heaven PERIOD![/ QUOTE]
Jude vs. 24 is a beautiful and meaningful verse. It is similar to 1 Cor. 10:13 that promises, "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And GOD IS FAITHFUL; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT so that YOU can stand up under it." Please read these verses in their immediate context. For instance, please read 1 Cor. 10:1-12. What is the warning here? Read the rest of Jude, before vs. 24. What is the warning of this book?
Jude 3 "I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith...(4) For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you...(6) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home (they did not cease to be angels, but they became "fallen" angels)...(7)In a similar way...gave themselves up to sexual immorality (their choice)...
I urge you to read the book of Jude in its entirety. The call is to hang in there! Be faithful to the end. Don't cease to run the race on God's terms!
God is able to keep us from falling and He will provide a way of escape from every temptation, but we must choose to let Him. God will let us walk away, even His disciples, if we want to (John 6:66-69).
God bless!
See Matt. 24:12. Although no man can pluck us from God's hand, that does not mean that we cannot choose to leave His hand of our own accord.
Certainly it is possible that some think they are saved but are not in the family of God. (Matt. 7:21-23) The question is though, can a person be saved and then be lost? The Bible teaches that this can happen. (Heb. 6:4-6;10:26-31).
What do you do with the "lost sheep?" (Luke 15:3-7) It was a sheep that was "in the fold," but "left the fold, was lost and then found."
This is a dangerous doctrine and not in harmony with what the Bible teaches. A young lady, whose dad is a preacher of this persuasion, didn't have on enough clothes to "wad a shotgun", smoking a Va. slim and with a illegitimate child on her lap proclaimed, "I know I am saved because I accepted Christ when I was 12 years old and once saved, always saved!" This is the fruit of that doctrine.
Once you die you go into eternity. This life is temporal. "It is appointed unto man once to die..." (Heb. 9:27) Read Matt. 24:42-51. Why the urgency to "be ready?"
You work out of your salvation, not into it.
The point is that you can be "drawn away of your own lust (even as a Christian), and enticed (to sin). Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, give birth to death." (James 1:13-15) Also check out James 5:19-20. This is addressed to "brothers."
Jude vs. 24 is a beautiful and meaningful verse. It is similar to 1 Cor. 10:13 that promises, "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And GOD IS FAITHFUL; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT so that YOU can stand up under it." Please read these verses in their immediate context. For instance, please read 1 Cor. 10:1-12. What is the warning here? Read the rest of Jude, before vs. 24. What is the warning of this book?
Jude 3 "I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith...(4) For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you...(6) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home (they did not cease to be angels, but they became "fallen" angels)...(7)In a similar way...gave themselves up to sexual immorality (their choice)...
I urge you to read the book of Jude in its entirety. The call is to hang in there! Be faithful to the end. Don't cease to run the race on God's terms!
God is able to keep us from falling and He will provide a way of escape from every temptation, but we must choose to let Him. God will let us walk away, even His disciples, if we want to (John 6:66-69).
In the parable of the prodigcal son, doesn't the Father say that his son was dead, but now is alive? Someone can't be "unborn" but surely they can die.
For almost two years I was dead to the spirtual part of my life...I shunned anything to do with it and pretty much decended into a life of depression, anger, hatred and lies...to the point that I could barely remeber my name and who I was through all the lies...
Now step by step, I'm coming back! I removing the sin from my life piece by piece and I can't tell you how good I feel about it! Jesus does not forget our names and who we are, this I can testify to, because now that I pray to His name I can finally once again remeber mine...
flyingsum0 said:For almost two years I was dead to the spirtual part of my life...I shunned anything to do with it and pretty much decended into a life of depression, anger, hatred and lies...to the point that I could barely remeber my name and who I was through all the lies...
Now step by step, I'm coming back! I removing the sin from my life piece by piece and I can't tell you how good I feel about it! Jesus does not forget our names and who we are, this I can testify to, because now that I pray to His name I can finally once again remeber mine...
God Bless you All!