Scripture teaches TO DIVIDE THE WORD OF TRUTH. This is notifying you; The WORD itself is PURE TRUTH....however the WORD DOES NOT APPLY THE SAME TO ALL PEOPLE.
There IS A DIVISION IN Gods WORD.
What a MAN chooses SHALL APPLY TO HIM, DOES NOT MEAN IT APPLYS THE SAME to all other men.
Jesus CAME to EFFECT the DIVISION.
Luke 12:51
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
I tell you NAY;
But rather DIVISION.
Every man CAN Elect and Choose which SIDE of the DIVISION he Wants to STAND.
Jews for Centuries have Believed IN thee Heavenly God, and have HOPE of Him. Their Messiah, appearing TO THEM, TO SAVE THEM.
He CAME, He Appeared.....YET, He did not Come AS THEY EXPECTED and INVISIONED...
So, many Jews did not, do not ACCEPT Jesus as THEIR MESSIAH.
That does not prohibit them FROM continuing to Believe IN God, or Their Messiah!
The Gentiles WHO traditionally DID NOT Believe IN the Jewish God, Began trusting the Testimony of the Jewish Messiah having arrived....and then ALSO began believing IN the Jewish God.
These Beliefs are ALL INDIVIDUAL mens elections and choices of what they TRUST to Believe.
Jesus' PARAMOUNT DIVISION, IS DIVIDING all men....WHO believe IN Him....from those WHO elect to NOT Believe IN Him.
All men have their Individual Natural life-span, to MAKE THEIR own election/choices.
Scripture repeatedly teaches....for a man to NOT dally. Rather to hear, learn, make his choice....since a man never knows when his own natural life may end; and his opportunity to CHOOSE expired.
A man WHO hears, learns, believes.......AND
ELECTS to CHOOSE AND Submit TO Jesus, Christ the Lord.....
THAT MAN, IS MADE Secure in WHICH SIDE of the DIVISION he FOREVER STANDS.
THAT MAN, IS KEPT SECURE "FOREVER" BY and THROUGH the Indwelling POWER OF GOD Himself.
And other men? Men who Believe in God?
Men without the Indwelling Spirit? How are they KEPT Secure in Belief?
BY THEIR OWN POWER.
Can a mans OWN POWER faulter, fail, be wavering? Absolutely!
And Scripture repeatedly WARNS THEM....if they are going to RELY on their OWN Power ... they must DO SO until the END of their natural life in order to BECOME Saved.
And men who Accept the Spirit of God, received during a Conversion, effected by and through Christ Jesus the Lord?
... they BECOME SAVED, during the Conversion....and NOTHING can UNDO that.
They ARE thereafter, blessed for ANY works they do that glorify God.
They thereafter, miss out on blessings for ANY works that do NOT glorify God.
However, THEY SHALL ... both good workers and not so good workers....BE occupants of Gods Kingdom!
Bottom line...Considering the DIVISION...
A man WITH, IN, and Christ IN HIM...ARE Forever WITH, IN, and Christ IN HIM.
A man WITHOUT, Christ....have a whole different set of Circumstances....That DO NOT APPLY TO A MAN IN and WITH Christ.
Thus....the Word of God becomes DIVIDED, dependent upon what MEN elect to choose.
Pay attention to WHO is being spoken TO in Scripture.
You provided Scriptures of men that CAN FALL AWAY......but you did not consider WHY or HOW that APPLIES to a man IN CHRIST....
Because it DOES NOT APPLY to a MAN IN Christ....nor would it APPLY to YOU, if you are IN Christ.
God Bless,
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Do you have some scripture of Jesus saying that we just have to believe in Him and we will be saved FOREVER?
Would this conflict with all the scripture I've posted?
Does the bible contradict itself?
Please post scripture. Your long posts are your own opinion.