Does the following sound to you as if all we lose are benefits in this life?The point is....your mother will ALWAYS be your mother. If you have a dispute and fall away from her she will remain your mother. Your relationship may not be like a mother /child relationship bu she will still be your mother.
if you are saved and fall away from the faith you will remain saved but not reap the christian benefits a christian receives during their life. Prayer works and God acts. But if you don't pray in your fallen away state God won't answer.
John 15:5-6
5“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
6“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.
JESUS is saying the above. IF we DO NOT abide IN HIM.......that means to live with Him and follow Him as a disciple does...
we are THROWN AWAY as a branch and dry up and gathered and cast into the fire and burned.
I do believe it's VERY clear that Jesus is referring to the afterlife since we do not burn up in THIS life.
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