Salvation is not probation.
Eternal life is not temporary life.
Jesus is the door. He is not a revolving door.
Salvation is not "probation" , like a criminal
Salvation is also not unconditional.
Since when did salvation become unconditional?
Dan, you believe only those who have faith in Christ will be saved.
No faith= no salvation.
If OSAS is written in Gods word.
The consequence of this is:
No free will.
We cannot choose to leave God.
We cannot choose to be lost.
Once God has saved us, we no longer have any ability of our own to go back into serving satan,
Matthew 6:24.
God takes away the free will choices one used to have the ability to make once God has saved the person.
Not only are you OSAS but also you no longer have any say in the matter of who you want to serve.
God therefore forces His will on you from the moment He saves you if OSAS is true.
This is once again calvinism!
T.U.I.L.P. P, Perseverance of the saints also I, Iressitable grace.
OSAS means you cannot resist God any longer. No freewill.
Does the bible teach man cannot resist Gods will to save us?
Acts 7:51,
You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
The bible gives us examples of those who left Jesus, quit abiding in Him.
Yes the saved have freewill as everyone.
If God miraculously changes your nature, so that you cannot, will not turn against Him,
Then calvinism is true ie irresistable grace, no freewill.
John 15:4-6, shows us, those ingrafted into Christ, can stop abiding in Christ and be cast away.
When was Peter saved?
The faith alone salvationist teach at the moment of belief in Jesus Christ.
Matthew 16:15-17
-but Jesus said to them, But who do you say that I am?
-Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
-Jesus answered and said to him,
Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
Now Peter has faith in Christ.
Can Peter with his free will choose to no longer have faith in Jesus?
Can Peter turn away from God?
Or is Peter OSAS?
Important question,
Will God save those who do not believe in Him?
Hebrews 3:12,
-beware brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God
John 3:18,
-he who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Peter loses his faith in Jesus.
Once saved but lost.
Mark 16:9-14
-14,
-Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and Jesus rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
They, apostles lost their faith.
Their hearts were hardened!
Can those with hardened hearts be saved?
Acts 28:27,
-for the hearts of this people have grown hardened.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
Their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should hear and see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.
The Bible teaches even the saved man of faith can become an unbeliever because God does not force His will on the lost or the saved.
Irresistable grace is false doctrine.
Perseverance of the saints is false doctrine.
OSAS is false.
Eternal life is permanent unless we choose to leave God, by giving up the faith.
Hebrews 10:23-24,
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
God is faithful to keep His promise. But this promise is based on conditions.
We must remain faithfull without wavering as the condition to stay in Gods grace.