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Seemingly Anti-OSAS Scriptures

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It seems rather clear that JLB doesn't understand the difference between a description and a condition.
LOL
It seems rather clear that YOU don't understand what a condition is...
For example...
verse 27 of John 10:27-28
 
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In all the verses you posted, one must either BELIEVE (the Koine Greek type of believe) or have FAITH to be saved.
Present tense.

John 10:27 is the CONDITION for receiving eternal life.
We must
hear
know
follow JESUS.

OR it could be a DESCRIPTION of someone who WILL receive eternal life. No difference...the meaning remains the same.


 
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First of all, don't put words I didn't say into MY mouth.

I have read your post's as to your rendering of 1 Cor 3:15. According to how interpret it.......Paul had a good chance as if he was saved by fire and suffered great loss. Because He tells us in Timothy that pretty much everyone deserted him at the end of his life.

If they(all of the people he taught and brought to the Lord) all fell away from the truth And most of Paul's 'work'(his converts and students) burned up in hell fire in the end.........Paul would have suffered great loss and saved as if through fire. I am following your logic out to the end. And it is sad.
 
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It seems rather clear that YOU don't understand what a condition is...
For example...
verse 27 of John 10:27-28
It seems rather clear that you don't understand that they are ALREADY his sheep in vs 27.New American Standard Bible
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
 
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FUNNY!

1. It's not MY rendering. I'm not a theologian...I posted many commentaries to help you along since you need the help.

2. Re Paul's converts falling away and burning in hell, or him, or whatever nonsense you said:

I thought you believed in OSAS?
So how did Paul's converts FALL AWAY?


 
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What Jesus sheep do their whole life, not just a day or week or year.
Whatever.

If that were true, why the commands to "continue in the faith", all without warnings of loss of salvation?

Faithful their whole life.
Except you continue to reject all the verses that teach that those who believe POSSESS eternal life. That means they possess it WHEN they believe.

You've failed to prove otherwise.

If they become lost, they must repent or perish.
Jesus said His sheep (believers) shall never, no, not ever, perish.

Why do you trample on what the Lord Jesus said?

Does one of His sheep who becomes lost need to be saved?
His sheep cannot be lost in the sense of unsaved.

But you don't believe what Jesus says about this, so I don't expect you to grasp this.
 
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It seems rather clear that YOU don't understand what a condition is...
For example...
verse 27 of John 10:27-28
OK, please provide the exact words that indicate a condition to be met in v.27.

Can't wait.
 
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Who said they aren't?
If you and I are His sheep . Then verse 28 applies to us.

We have eternal life and will Never, no not ever perish.

Could you or I possibly perish? If your answer is yes. Then we cannot possibly be His sheep right now.
 
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In all the verses you posted, one must either BELIEVE (the Koine Greek type of believe) or have FAITH to be saved.
Present tense.
So? Please explain the meaning of the present tense.

But never mind. I'll tell you, since you obviously don't know.

It means that the MOMENT one believes (that means when they believe IS the present in terms of the believer) they ARE saved.

But Arminians abuse the present tense and insist it means they MUST CONTINUE to believe in order to continue to be saved.

But, all the times 'believe' is in the aorist tense destroys that notion.

And our sealing is based on a past action (aorist tense) of believing which results in a guarantee of our inheritance until the day of redemption.

But you can't explain that, huh.

John 10:27 is the CONDITION for receiving eternal life.
We must
hear
know
follow JESUS.
Except we don't find the words "we must..." in order to never perish.

That's what a condition looks like, which you seem oblivious to.

OR it could be a DESCRIPTION of someone who WILL receive eternal life. No difference...the meaning remains the same.
So, to you, there is no difference between a condition and a description.

Yep, you really do need a primer on the meaning of words in English.
 
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GodsGrace101 said:
Who said they aren't?
If you and I are His sheep . Then verse 28 applies to us.

We have eternal life and will Never, no not ever perish.

Could you or I possibly perish? If your answer is yes. Then we cannot possibly be His sheep right now.
Oh, oh. Now you confused her with some FACTS.

 
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The word justified in James 2:21 is dikaióō which can also mean to show or exhibit one to be righteous. I think Abraham was justified long before offering Issac because he had obeyed God constantly. Offering Issac wasn’t the first time he obeyed God so I think the context being used in James 2 is that he was shown to be righteous.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

justified


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Lemma:

δικαιόω


Transliteration:

dikaióō


Pronounce:

dik-ah-yo'-o


Part of Speech:

Verb


Language:

greek


Description:

1) to render righteous or such he ought to be

2) to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered

3) to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be
 
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So believing is a work?
Believing is clearly not a work that merits our salvation. Through believing, we are completely trusting in "Another's work," (Christ's finished work of redemption). *Not to be confused with multiple acts of obedience/works which "follow conversion" and are produced "out of" faith.

Believing is not simply just another work in a series of works in a quest to receive salvation by works.
 
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That is where believing comes in.

Believe in a verb: An action word.

Faith is a noun: a person place or thing.

Faith is the substance of the thing we are hoping for.

Faith is the substance of the salvation we are hoping for.
Once again, the Greek words for "pistis" and "pisteuo" are two forms of the same word. "Pistis" is the noun form, "pisteuo" is the verb form. Why do you think that "believe" and "faith" result in the same end -- salvation/eternal life? (John 3:18; Acts 16:31; Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:8 etc..). Nothing in the root meaning of either word carries any concept of works. If you believe/have faith in Christ for salvation, then you are trusting in Him alone to save you.

*This belief/faith results in actions appropriate to the belief (to one degree or the other/all genuine believers are fruitful, yet not all are equally fruitful) - but the actions are NOT INHERENT in the belief.

Strong's #4100:
pisteuo (pronounced pist-yoo'-o) from 4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ):--believe, commit (to trust), put in trust with.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

pisteuō

1) to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
1a) of the thing believed
1a1) to credit, have confidence
1b) in a moral or religious reference
1b1) used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
1b2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
2) to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
2a) to be intrusted with a thing

https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/G4100/pisteuo.htm

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 1 Thessalonians 5:8
Notice the word hope there. This hope is not some wishy washy cross your fingers hope I make to heaven kind of hope. Unlike the english word "hope," the N.T. word contains no uncertainty; it speaks of something that is certain:

*Strong's #1680 elpís (from elpō, "to anticipate, welcome") – properly, expectation of what is sure (certain); hope. If we have saving faith in Christ, then we have this hope. Faith is the substance of things HOPED for.. (Hebrews 11:1). So that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the HOPE of eternal life (Titus 3:7).

Salvation is the end result of faith for salvation.

receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:9
Amen! From beginning "have been saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8) to end "receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls" (1 Peter 1:9) salvation is by grace through faith and is not by works.
 
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Again faith is what we receive from God when He speaks to us.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Believe and obey is our part the we do, that activates the faith we have when God speaks to us.
You make it sound like our faith is dead UNTIL we produce obedience/works and then it finally comes to life and saves us (saved by faith and works), which is false. We are made alive with Christ and saved by grace through faith and not by obedience/works which follows (Ephesians 2:5-10).

Noah had already "found grace" (Genesis 6:8), was "a preacher of righteousness" (2 Peter 2:5), and "walked with God" BEFORE he built the ark. His obedience was a DEMONSTRATION of his faith, not the origin of it. Building the ark demonstrated his faith and saved him and his family (physically) from drowning (Hebrews 11:7).

The righteousness of faith is about obeying.
The righteousness of faith is about believing. Obedience which follows is about works and we are not saved by works.

OSAS teaches that Noah could have believed in his heart that God would build the Ark, taking no action of obedience, but only believing, in which he would still be considered righteous even though he disobeyed God, and did not build the Ark.
Straw man argument. If Noah had refused to build the ark, then he would have demonstrated a lack of faith and ended up drowning with everyone else, yet that was not the case and Noah was already considered righteous (found grace/was a preacher of righteousness) BEFORE he built the ark.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. Hebrews 11:8

Abraham believed God, therefore he obeyed.
It was by or "out of" faith that Abraham obeyed God and not his faith was in essence his obedience/works. Also, Genesis 12 is not the end of the story there. In Genesis 15:5, we read that God brought Abraham outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, so shall your descendants be.” 6 And he believed in the Lord, and it (faith, not works) was accounted it to him for righteousness.
 
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