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If you think you can be lost, how can you have saving faith? You need to check this out.
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If you think you can be lost, how can you have saving faith? You need to check this out.About most everything.
But you see them as believers which they are not as far as Christ is concerned.They are either one or the other. They can't be both.
It annoys me when I have to agree with you Dave, I'll have to look closer to see if there's any difference in the details! Lol“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made (constituted) sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made (constituted) righteous.” Romans 5:19 (KJV 1900)
What most do not understand is that Christ saves believers through His shed blood and his imputed righteousness. Our works are wood, hay, and stubble that cannot save. If improved on, they merit a better resurrection. But even then, believers remain saved by Christ’s imputed righteousness, even if all their petty works are destroyed by fire.
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” 1 Corinthians 3:11–15 (KJV 1900)
That's a big problem for many. But you cannot experience saving faith if you think you can be lost. I have saving faith and know the difference.Honestly the question does not make any sense to me.
I really dislike this novel “theology”. The reason a believer doesn’t sin isn’t because he’s now a pretend saint; it’s because he’s been forgiven and made a new creation; righteousness, primarily love, being poured into his heart (Rom 5:5). The more we know and love God, the more that sin is excluded, those items being mutually exclusive. Now we’re expected to continue to walk in that light, in that love, as He does, as we remain in Him. And that’s a daily choice even as He’ll also give us the grace to sustain it.“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 1 John 3:9 (KJV 1900)
This speaks of Christ's imputed righteousness. If you apostatize you were one of those who act like a Christian who Christ tells to depart, "I never knew you"
A simple fact is if you think you can lose your salvation, you cannot have faith that God saved you.
Oh, so it depends on us-and what we resolve to think. There will be those who never thought they pleased the Lord at all but did, based on what they did, “for the least of these” (Matt 25), while others will think they’re saved while they’re not (Matt 7). Love is what defines a true believer.But the saved are saved and cannot perish. You cannot have saving faith if you think you can be lost.
The thing is, saving faith tells you you are saved. Human faith only hopes for salvation.I really dislike this novel “theology”. The reason a believer doesn’t sin isn’t because he’s now a pretend saint; it’s because he’s been forgiven and made a new creation; righteousness, primarily love, being poured into his heart (Rom 5:5). The more we know and love God, the more that sin is excluded, those items being mutually exclusive. Now we’re expected to continue to walk in that light, in that love, as He does, as we remain in Him. And that’s a daily choice even as He’ll also give us the grace to sustain it.
Oh, so it depends on us-and what we resolve to think. There will be those who never thought they pleased the Lord at all but did, based on what they did, “for the least of these” (Matt 25), while others will think they’re saved while they’re not (Matt 7). Love is what defines a true believer.
Faith is faith. We can either value and act upon it, or fail to do so at any point along the journey.The thing is, saving faith tells you you are saved. Human faith only hopes for salvation.
No, human faith buys used cars with confidence. Holy Spirit Faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.Faith is faith. We can either value and act upon it, or fail to do so at any point along the journey.
The discussion is about faith in God and salvation, not cars. And as in any relationship, we can become unfaithful, we can fail to remain in Him IOW.No, human faith buys used cars with confidence. Holy Spirit Faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
But used-car faith cannot save. And you think there is only that kind of faith.The discussion is about faith in God, not cars. And as in any relationship, we can become unfaithful, we can fail to remain in Him IOW.
Oh, used-car faith. You brought that up, not me. There’s only one kind of faith in God, and it can still be forfeited, dismissed, valued like a jalopy.But used-car faith cannot save. And you think there is only that kind of faith.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” Galatians 5:22 (KJV 1900)Oh, used-car faith. You brought that up, not me. There’s only one kind of faith in God, and it can be forfeited, dismissed, valued like a jalopy.
It’s not either/or, but both/and. Faith, as with any virtue, grows as it’s expressed. So faith, as a gift of God but also a human choice, is idle, fruitless, until we accept and profess and act upon it. Related to this are Mark 5:34 and Mark 9:24“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” Galatians 5:22 (KJV 1900)
This means God must save you in the Reformed manner before you can have faith.
How does any of this deal with OSAS?“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made (constituted) sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made (constituted) righteous.” Romans 5:19 (KJV 1900)
What most do not understand is that Christ saves believers through His shed blood and his imputed righteousness. Our works are wood, hay, and stubble that cannot save. If improved on, they merit a better resurrection. But even then, believers remain saved by Christ’s imputed righteousness, even if all their petty works are destroyed by fire.
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” 1 Corinthians 3:11–15 (KJV 1900)
1 John 5:16 doesn't refer to eternal death but God's discipline which includes physical death. We this example in Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5, and the incestuous man in 1 Cor 5. And the entire first generation of Israelites during the 40 year march through desert (minus Josua and Caleb) per 1 Cor 10:1-11.Unless one has apostisize. The sin "until death" is not forgiven.
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16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
According to?A simple fact is if you think you can lose your salvation, you cannot have faith that God saved you.
...A simple fact is if you think you can lose your salvation, you cannot have faith that God saved you.
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked man does, will he live? None of the righteous thing1 John 5:16 doesn't refer to eternal death but God's discipline which includes physical death. We this example in Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5, and the incestuous man in 1 Cor 5. And the entire first generation of Israelites during the 40 year march through desert (minus Josua and Caleb) per 1 Cor 10:1-11.
Jesus taught in John 5:24 that those who believe (present tense) have (or possess, also in the present tense) eternal life. So this shows that the gift of eternal life is given WHEN a person believes savingly in Christ. iow, from the MOMENT one believes, they possess eternal life.
Then, in John 10:28, Jesus said recipients of eternal life (see Jn 5:24) SHALL NEVER PERISH.
So it is very clear that from the MOMENT of saving faith in Christ, the person possesses eternal life and they shall never perish.
I know this really bothers Arminian type thinking. However, let's consider 2 more verses that support eternal security.
John 3:18 - Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
2 Thess 2:12 - and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
We find the exact same words in both verses; "have not believed". Since there is no time frame for "not believing", it is obvious that the words mean "have NEVER believed".
So these 2 verses say clearly that condemnation (eternal) is for those who NEVER believed.
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