FAITH AND SALVATION
and General Terms
and General Terms
This issue is old as the world itself, but it is worth to explain this issue in a different light from the traditional dogma created by the church and used today as a crèche for those who believe in easy, effortless, and trouble-free salvation of their soul without any effort on their part.
And such dogmas have been created as these statements If you believe in Christ you saved, and You saved only on one condition, if you are sure that you saved., and many similar like it.
It is true that our salvation relies on our own believe in GOD which as progresses will become the faith, the highest level of believe, which we can gain from the Word of GOD, but also we can lose it by being tempted by our own desires and the temptations of this world.
First Timothy 1.19
19.having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith,
First Timothy 4.1
1.Now, the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
First Timothy 6.10
10.The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
And the verse below indicates precisely how we can lose our faith and our salvation if we turn away from GOD.
To Hebrews 6.4
4.It is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the Heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Such example of the failure in faith and lost of salvation can be directed as well and to Judas, who was among twelve, who experience everything that all other Apostles experienced, whom Jesus gave the Holy Spirit and sent without anything to preach with all other Apostles, to heal, and even to resurrect the dead, and Judas done all those things.
And by experiencing all these great wonders and miracles by himself, he still remained as the earthly man. So my point is, if one like Judas who experienced so much from the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and still fails Him, then what about us who do not experiences even a fraction of it? How easy for us will be fall out from the faith in GOD?
This means that we can lose our faith in GOD and our own salvation at any time, if we are not careful with our words, deeds, and our life according to the Word of GOD, and indeed we can easily lose our salvation if we do not keep ourselves on the constant alert against all our temptations, our desires, and against the evil of this world.
So the dogma and the doctrine that many people using today as the reassurance of their own salvation, saying that they saved just because they believe in GOD, may be in this case is a very dangerous and false assumption and guideline which may lead to complete fall in faith and lost of salvation.
Many places in the Bible contain such statement as this: those who believe will be saved, and it is true, but it is only a General Term, a Headline, a Poster, but under it is a set of many conditions, obligations, regulations, statutes, and commandments of GOD to follow, in order to achieve such goal as salvation of the soul.
But unfortunately many people usually ignoring the fine print, but mostly preferred and concentrated their attention on the billboard words which is the General Term of the statement, and ignoring many regulations and conditions of the General statement related to it, the purpose of which to reveal the entire meaning, and essence, the core, and the spirit of the General Statement.
