followjesus777 said:
it is written...
"The gifts and calling of God are WITHOUT repentance"(Romans11:29)
Salvation is a gift...it doesnt say unless you do this or that...it says "the gifts ...OF GOD ARE WITHOUT Repentance"
This is the tip of the iceberg to support "ETERNAL SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE". if you pm me your email i will try to fwd all the info!
i have a ton of respect for Hagin but even he(or his faith OR his perception of the truth) isnt 'perfect' and neither am i! i am learning day by day we all have a long way to go before WE ARE PERFECT in our understanding and our acts!PTL!
Wrong, look at the verse in context and with what was said before. This is talking to the Gentiles about the JEWS
11:19
You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
11:20
Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited *, but fear;
11:21
for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
11:22
Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 11:23
And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural * branches be grafted into their own olive tree ?
11:25
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery --so * that you will not be wise in your own estimation --that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
11:26
and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."
11:27
"THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."
11:28
From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;
The natural branches here are the Jews. If they can be cut off then so can us who have been grafted in. NOw who has been grafted in? Bornagain believers. What Grafted mean is to be added. My Grandmother used to graft trees. This means to take a branch from one tree and add it to another.