Philippians 2:12
Consequently, my beloved ones, just as you have always obeyed, not only during my presence but now much more readily during my absence, keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Do not be misled. Those who are sexually immoral, idolaters,adulterers, men who submit to homosexual acts, men who practice homosexuality, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Galatians 5:19-21
(speaking to his already baptized flock) Now the works of the flesh are plainly seen, and they are sexual immorality, uncleanness, brazen conduct, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, dissensions, divisions, sects, wild parties, and things like these. I am forewarning you about these things, the same way I already warned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left
Hebrews 6:4-6
For as regards those who were once enlightened and who have tasted the heavenly free gift and who have become partakers of holy spirit it is impossible to revive them again to repentance, because they nail the Son of God to the stake again for themselves and expose him to public shame.
2 Peter 2:20-21
Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first. It would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it to turn away from the holy commandment they had received.
John 15:1-6
I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. for apart from me you can do nothing at all. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown out like a branch and dries up. And men gather those branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Romans 11:17-22
However, if some of the branches were broken off and you, although being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the richness of the olive’s root, the branches. If, though, you are arrogant toward them, remember that you do not bear the root, but the root bears you but you are standing by faith. Do not be haughty, but be in fear. and severity. There is severity toward those who fell, but toward you there is God’s kindness, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise, you too will be lopped off.
What are you talking about when you say the race has no beginning? Of course it has a beginning. In faith coming into Christ's church and being baptized, being born anew, and hopefully growing in the faith and not leaving it.
I am talking about evangelicals, many of whom are also protestant. I don't understand how that doesn't make sense. You can't just say I am giving muddled truths without any evidence or explanation to the contrary. You conveniently ignore the scripture I am posting. I believed the same exact thing every southern Baptist evangelical believes. You keep talking about verb tenses of salvation but seem to ignore the context of the word salvation used. Any time it is used in the present tense it is used to speak of salvation from sin, not necessarily eternal. Salvation from the passions and salvation of life eternal are two different things. Paul distinguishes between the two.
There is only one church, and it didn't start in the 1800s with the latter revival movement. Call your congregation what you will but Christ founded one Church with the twelve apostles who set up a structure that has stood for 2000 years. People break away, people form their own sects- But there is only one Church, as there is only one truth.