POST#7: Q1: "
If you're following the way: "Once saved, always saved", you need to "turn around". "
RCC Salvation doctrine/dogma:
Salvation, in Roman Catholicism, is a process with many steps: Actual Grace, Faith, Good Works, Baptism, Participation in the Sacraments, Penance, Indulgences, and Keeping the Commandments. Basically, salvation is attained through baptism and good works. It is maintained by good works and participation in the sacraments. If lost, it is regained through the sacrament of Penance which only a Roman Catholic priest can administer. Add to this purgatorial cleansing after a person dies, and you can see that salvation is an arduous process.
REF:
Regaining Salvation in Roman Catholicism | carm
In Catholicism, a person can gain salvation and lose it many times depending on the number of sins committed, their severity, and how much of the sacraments that they participate in--in order to regain grace which enables them to do good works by which they are justified. Furthermore, justifying grace is infused into the Catholic upon baptism and via the sacraments. This grace can be gradually lost through venial sins or forfeited all together with mortal sins.
ETERNAL SECURITY of the true Believer's SALVATION
ACCORDING to the Bible: "
Scriptura Suprema":
SEE:
https://www.christianforums.com/threads/losing-salvation.8010090/
https://www.christianforums.com/threads/you-can-lose-your-salvation-through-apostasy.7785433/
Can True born again BELIEVERS lose their spiritual POSITION in Christ?
Can a Christian Lose His Salvation?
Willful Sin after Salvation and Eternal Security
.
Jesus taught and practiced
FORGIVENESS OF SINS for believers...NOT loss of spiritual POSITION
Mark 11: 24-25
See ALSO: Luke 6: 36-38...Jesus: Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Jesus will never "..cast out " a true "sheep" ...believer.
John 6:35-40
Paul taught that:
(NOTHING) ..."will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord...." Romans 8:35-39
John 10...Jesus the God-Man / and the Father hold you in their HANDS!...
NOTHING can "snatch" you out!
The TRI-UNE God by Grace through Faith has saved the Souls and Spirits of all true believers:
1. shown uttermost LOVE...John 13:1
2. keeps us to Himself.....John 28:30
3. presents us faultless in heaven...Jude 24
4. makes intercession to maintain our saved relationship...Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1
5. places us into the Body of Christ / indwelt by God the Holy Spirit...1 Cor. 12:13
6. seals us until the day of redemption...Ephesians 4:30
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel,
for it is the power of God FOR salvation to everyone who BELIEVES, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Once a spirit-led BELIEVER...ALWAYS a spirit-led BELIEVER. God does not take back His Ephesian 2 GIFTS!
Ephesians 1:13
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation — having also BELIEVED, you were
SEALED IN Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Once a SEALED BELIEVER...always a SEALED BELIEVER. Once God gives you SPIRITUAL POSITION, He does not change it.
Once a "son of God"...Always a "son of God"
Once adopted into the family of God...Always adopted into the family of God
Once a sheep of the Good Shepherd...Always a sheep of the Good Shepherd
Once spiritually changed (John 3) / "born again from above "...Always spiritually changed / "born again from above "
Once indwelt by God the Holy Spirit...Always indwelt by God the Holy Spirit
Once spiritually baptized into the Body of Christ...Always spiritually baptized into the Body of Christ
Once John 3 / Ephesian 2 saved...ALWAYS John 3 / Ephesian 2 SAVED
Once God performs His Loving works and gifts of salvation...GOD WILL NOT UN-DO THEM!...But He does FORGIVE SIN...NOT punish with the loss of SPIRITUAL POSITION.
2 Timothy 3:15
and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that
leads to salvation THROUGH FAITH which is in Christ Jesus.
Luke 6
47 Everyone who COMES to Me and HEARS My words and ACTS on them,
I will show you whom he is like:
48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on "THE ROCK";
and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it,
because it had been well built.
49 But the one who has heard and has not ACTED accordingly,
is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation;(SINKING SAND!)
and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed,
and the ruin of that house was great.”
Once a BELIEVER is built on "THE ROCK"...ALWAYS will he stay built on "THE ROCK". God is your unchanging support.
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 78:35
And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.