JAM2b
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Whats the point of repentance if you cant lose your salvation.?
What motivation is that? How can you further give your heart if every things been done? If you are all taken care of once you are born again, whats the point of repentance and doing good works?
God wants a love relationship with you. He wants you to love him back.
TO be saved you must BELIEVE and repent, continue to believe and continue to repent. If once saved always saved was true then its not really a relationship. its more of a contract. and a selfish gain.
The repentance is partly so to show that there was an act of salvation taking place, and to keep us from continuing to ruin our lives and others. Even though we are forgiven, that doesn't mean God is ok with repeat sinfulness. He still wants us to live rightly. The salvation doesn't go away, but there can be earthly consequences for us, and God does not want that either. He is a compassionate and loving God and Father, who only wants good for us.
The reason we are motivated to repent is out of love and gratefulness to the Father and Jesus Christ, and to avoid those earthly consequences. It is the result of healing and a loss of fear that we experience when we are able to perceive his perfect love and mercy for us when we realize we have been saved by grace through faith.
If someone is repenting so that they won't lose their salvation, then where is the honesty in that? Where's the relationship? Is that not manipulative?
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