WalkInLight
Active Member
The title speaks for itself.
With very very few exceptions, and there is one on this site, no one can deny it.
A problem with absolutes. They describe something that must be true from all angles, something that cannot shift or change.
Everything in our lives is dependent on one thing, our perception. Once that shifts, everything is up for grabs.
Once saved always saved is an absolutest statement. In the eternal, speaking of the elect, it is a true statement.
But take Judas. The apostles assumed he was saved, appointed as one of the founders of the church, literally, a close follower of Jesus.
Satan was an angel before the Lord, but fell. A large section of heavenly host also fell with him.
For love to be real, it needs to show itself beyond ideas into actual action, which is why the cross is the symbol of eternal love.
Scripture goes so far as to say Jesus was perfected by His sacrifice.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.
9 And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
10 and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 5:8-10
How do we know love exists or is real? By its demonstration. The difference between an impulse or a nice feeling and love,
love results in actions, the two echo their reality.
So OSAS is declaring something over someones life before the treasure within has actually been shown to be real.
Many OSAS followers will say the true believers show their faith in their actions as fruit.
But by declaring this they are saying OSAS is meaningless, because salvation is only real if it is real in someones life.
So it is not an absolute based on a faith declaration, but only when this flows through to their life.
Often when a believer falls away, they say they never had faith because they fell away. So what security is there in the
statement of OSAS if you cannot tell unless fruit shows in their lives? And thats the point, scripture does not support
or spiritual life OSAS as an absolute or a rock upon which to secure ones life. Only walking in faith with Jesus does, showing
the fruit of love working out through daily life.
God bless you