OSAS is ONCE saved, ALWAYS saved. Some call it eternal security. How do you reconcile OSAS with this POV? I agree with your view of Luke 8:13
Glad you agree with my view of Luke 8:13. Not sure what you are asking about reconciling OSAS. Could you be more specific, please?
Sorry I don't see OSAS here except in an eisegetical manner. God even loves those that go to hell and these scenarios do not have to do with OUR choice to walk away or fall into apostasy.
First, Paul is addressing Rom 8:34-39 to believers, and the text is clear that nothing can separate us (believers) from God's love. And nothing in the present or future will change that.
The context is about forces OUTSIDE of ourselves.
I must disagree. There sure are some forces outside of ourselves, but "things present and things future" aren't "forces outside of ourselves". Those specifically speak about anything in the present or future, which cannot separate us from God's love.
It says nothing about our free will choices, and would be contradictory to passages in Hebrews 6 and 10 that show people do fall/shrink back.
Yes, believers do fall back. But not from God's hand of salvation (Jn 10).
The Bible is NOT contradictory so you have to find the proper context here in Romans 8.
What I posted isn't contradictory to Scripture.
1 Thess 5 is about the day of Jesus' return. Verses 1-11 is a metaphorical analogy of that day. Paul dealt with the status of dead/sleeping believers already in chapter 4. It's not about life STYLE, it is about life STATUS/PURPOSE. Some believers obviously will be alive when Jesus returns, and some will be dead or as the Bible likes to euphemistically refer to them as 'sleeping'.
Sorry, but I disagree. Paul notes the lifestyle of unbelievers and equates that with being asleep, as opposed to being alert.
1 Thess 5:3-10
3 While they are saying, Peace and safety! then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
Note these phrases:
"let us (believers) not sleep as others (unbelievers) do"
"sleep at night, get drunk at night" refers to lifestyle
"let us (believers) be sober, put on the breastplate
helmet" reference to lifestyle.
"whether we (believers) awake or asleep" means regardless of lifestyle
"we (believers) will live together with Him" is a guarantee that all believers will live together with Christ.