Once Saved, Always Saved question???

[Dark_Lite]

Once saved always saved is dangerous theology. By the mere mention of its name it can give the wrong impression. As far as I know it's basically just a twisted version of regular, traditional theology. But of course I could be wrong.

 

[PuppyforChrist]

Well here is what I think about "Once Saved Always Saved."

You become a Christian for the first time. You devote youself to God in everyway you possibly can.

And then, at some point along the line, your faith begins to fall apart. You stop going to church, you stop praying, and then, you suddenly start blaming God for everything that happens to you until before you know it, you don't want to have anything to do with God anymore. You turn your back on him. This back turn could go on for years. Why does this happen? Influence. Influence from one's peers, like hanging with the wrong crowd, as well as Satan himself.

Then one day, after turning your back on him for many years, you suddenly realize that he was there afterall. You realize that you were wrong. You fall on your hands and knees, and pray the sinners prayer, asking God to come back into your heart once more, and heal the wounds that you have gotten when you lived your life without him.

Make sense? This is basically what happened to me. My mother stopped taking me to church when I was three or four. I had been baptized and believed, but after not going back to church, I stopped believing. Years passed and I soon started really turning my back on him, telling people that he wasn't real, and that whoever believed in him was wrong to do so.

A little over two years ago was when my mind began to change about that. After attending my first church service in years, my mind shifted, and I realized I was wrong. I prayed the sinners prayer and asked God back into my heart again. I was tired of being lost and alone. I needed God back into my life.

So in conclusion, you can turn your back on God and lose your salvation. It happened to me as you just read, however, God will never stop looking for you, and when he finds you and you become a Christian again, he will not only forgive you for turning your back on him, but he will rejoice like a father who had just found his lost son after years of looking for him.

This is what I believe, but I strongly believe it.

Hope this helps!

 

[ukok]

The bible tells us that nothing unclean will enter heaven....who then is fit for heaven simply by believing in the Son of God - no one! Even satan believes in the Son of God.

I believe that it isn't enough to consider ourselves 'saved' through a singular act of repentance at former life, nor baptism...we have to make a continual penitance for our sin, and even then, we should never asume that we are worthy of everlasting life - in other word's, how we live our daily live's really matters, and that is a tremendous burden at time's, because we have to take an active role in choosing to do good, in every instance, from the moment that we arise each morning, until we close our eyes to sleep

For example, i could tell you the I am saved and point to Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8)

But then, i would also have to tell you that i am in the process of being saved, 1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12.

And then you see, this is not proof conclusive of my salvation, because i will have to tell you that I have the hope, of being saved ;Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15.

If my salvation and yours is guaranteed, then how come Paul is 'working out his salvation in fear and trembling ? - Phil. 2:12


...with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ ; Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13


The theory that i can be saved once and for all, is hardly confronting the obvious fact that one can be 'saved' and then reject God at a later time...would that person then go to heaven simply because at ONE time they had accepted Christ ?

God Bless you.

 

[e8514]

Some churches do believe once saved always saved. I believe people treat Jesus like a cup of water at times.

We set him down and when we need a drink later we go pick it back up. I agree that if we walk away from Christ(some call it Backslide) we must re-build the relationship.

God wants us to be close to him all the time. I am glad you were given the wisdom to realize this.

God Bless you. :crosself: