There are three separate and distinct views of "Once Saved Always Saved".
1. Antinomianism, a view that salvation is relationship but not necessarily fellowship with God. One can be actively fornicating, or drunk/carousing, or robbing, perhaps even murdering; but if he believes in Christ, his sins are covered, and He'll receive eternal life.
2. Calvinism/Reformed-Theology, view that God sovereignly chooses who will be saved (and monergistically regenerates their hearts, so that their wills then turn towards saving-faith)...
3. Eternal Security --- view that atonement is unlimited (differs from Calvinism which asserts "limited atonement"), but once "IN", either a person's heart is too changed TO believe, or God dynamically interferes to PREVENT real apostasy.
So --- with respect to #1, can a person who is actively practicing sin, expect to enter Heaven?
Let's start by listing verses thought to support:
1Corinthians 3:11-15: "For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood hay or straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
Romans 8:10: “For if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
John6:47, "Truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life".
Acts 16:31, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household".
Any other verses that seem to assert "righteousness or salvation, without forsaking practicing-sin"?
1. Antinomianism, a view that salvation is relationship but not necessarily fellowship with God. One can be actively fornicating, or drunk/carousing, or robbing, perhaps even murdering; but if he believes in Christ, his sins are covered, and He'll receive eternal life.
2. Calvinism/Reformed-Theology, view that God sovereignly chooses who will be saved (and monergistically regenerates their hearts, so that their wills then turn towards saving-faith)...
3. Eternal Security --- view that atonement is unlimited (differs from Calvinism which asserts "limited atonement"), but once "IN", either a person's heart is too changed TO believe, or God dynamically interferes to PREVENT real apostasy.
So --- with respect to #1, can a person who is actively practicing sin, expect to enter Heaven?
Let's start by listing verses thought to support:
1Corinthians 3:11-15: "For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood hay or straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
Romans 8:10: “For if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
John6:47, "Truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life".
Acts 16:31, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household".
Any other verses that seem to assert "righteousness or salvation, without forsaking practicing-sin"?