That's because the author is referencing believers in Christ who have already confessed their sins.
So what. So does most of the Bible.
Eph 2:1-3 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
The subject here is Eph. 2:8-9 , not Eph. 2:1-3.
And if they sit back they don't lose salvation, they are sanctified and disciplined, Heb 12. The accusing spirit doesn't change the Gospel message no matter how many times you log on.
God wouldn't bother disciplining anyone who is guaranteed salvation, no matter how many times you log on.
Well, let me ask you this first. Do you believe spiritual water is biblical?
There is no such thing as physical, wet spiritual water. You are being ridiculous.
Jhn 7:37-39 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
This has nothing to do with wet, physical water. It's a non sequitur fallacy.
Read again BOL. Notice HOW we become children of God, it is through belief.
No one denies this. We can't please God without faith. But believing is only the beginning of the life long process of justification, as I have shown you twice with Abraham.
Galatians 5:6 the faith that justifies us is “faith working through love,” not faith alone. Faith and love (manifested by works) are always connected. Faith (a process of thought) and love (an action)
are never separated in the Scriptures. Cf. Eph. 3:17; 1 Thess. 3:6,12-13; 2 Thess. 1:3; 1 John 3:23; Rev. 2:4-5,19.
Further, all faith (initial and perfected) are gratuitous gifts from God, and not earned or merited by any human action. God effects everything, both the willing and the achievement. But God also requires human action, which is necessary to perfect our faith.
Rom. 11:20-23 – in expounding on Jesus’ teaching in John 15, Paul teaches that the Jews (the natural branches) were broken off by lack of faith (v.20), but
says that the Romans stand fast through faith (v. 21). So the Romans are justified. However, Paul then says that the Romans can also be cut off if they don’t persevere in faith and kindness (v. 22-23). Hence, those justified before God can fall away from the faith and lose their salvation (be “cut off”). Paul also says that those who are cut off can be grafted back in if they do not persist in their unbelief, for God has the power to graft them in again (v.23).
These verses are devastating to the “once saved, always saved” position.
Jhn 1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
All who never heard the gospel, through no fault of their own, spend an eternity in hell, according to Calvin.
They don't have faith in what exactly?
Proving a negative is a tactic of atheists.
James 2:19 "...the demons also believe, and tremble."
What part of "the demons also believe, and tremble" don't you understand?
If you were smart you would leave this one alone instead of harping on it.
Because you take the word "works" out of context. You're using it to save yourself instead of believing on the finished work of the cross. It's His works that save us, not ours. The devil is forever trying to be God, wouldn't you say BOL?
That is a classic straw man fallacy. You should use quotes instead of making things up.
