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Tares = those who are evil.
Wheat = those who are righteous.
No matter how hard you try, a tare can't become wheat. Unless God does the changing. 2 Cor 5:17
No matter how hard you try, wheat can't become a tare. God won't do this.
I’m not going to post the parable about wheat and tares to save space. You say wheat cannot become tares but everything in this post suggests otherwise. If we can’t fall away from grace because we simply believe then why are all these examples written explaining how someone can lose their salvation? Why doesn’t the gospel simply say believe in Jesus Christ if everything else doesn’t matter? All of these situations are about loss of salvation. They apply to everyone but more so to believers because like I said before none of these situations matter if someone doesn’t believe. Believing doesn’t make anyone exempt from these situations.
And how can people prepare themselves for the coming of Jesus?
By doing good works?
Stopping sin in there life?
What about accepting Jesus as Savior? Would that work.
Obviously in this parable Jesus is the master who will return unannounced. So who is the servant of the master? That would be a believer. A person who’s faith leads them to do good works and repent of sin is what prepares them for Christ’s return. No obviously simply accepting Jesus as your Savior will not save you. That is what all these verses are about. It is accepting Him as your Savior and walking in the Spirit that will save you.
““A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. But what if the servant is evil and thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 24:45-51
If you are a believer, you are not an unbeliever.
You are one of the victorious ones, having overcome unbelief.
I don’t see where you get that idea from these verses. The word believer is not even mentioned here. What is mentioned is that ALL who do not repent of sin will burn in the lake of fire. There are no exceptions for believers anywhere in the Bible.
“All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.””
Revelation 21:7-8
This passage shows the seriousness of the need to change and become a believer.
How does this passage say that someone can lose there salvation.
I don't know where you get the idea that once you belong to God, He is going to give you up.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Paul still says to these people that were doing such things as the Corinthians were doing that they still belonged to God, they were bought with a price, there bodies were the temple of the Holy Ghost.
And because of this they should glorify God in there spirit and there body.
You ask how does this passage say that someone can lose their salvation? Umm did you read the very first sentence? Unless you turn from sin you will never get into the Kingdom of God. There’s a difference between believing in Jesus and turning from sin. Someone can believe in Jesus and still live their same sinful life. It is absolutely possible and very common.
“Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. “What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting. So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.”
Matthew 18:3-9
I don’t know what your point is about 1 Corinthians 6:17-20. Perhaps another translation will help you understand what is being said.
“Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:15-20
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