We CAN'T.
If we stop having faith which requires both belief AND obedience - we cannot be saved.
We will be LOST, according to Scripture (Matt. 5:13, Matt. 7:21, Rom. 11:22, Heb. 10:26-27, 2 Peter 2:20-22, 2 Peter 3:17, Rev. 3:5, Rev. 22:19).
You cannot turn your back on your Epignosis of Christ and still hope to be saved.
BOL I thought it was time again to go over your famous eight 'loss of salvation' verses. Of course my meanings of them are completely different from yours, not twisted to conform to the presented premise that salvation loss = faith loss = belief loss + obedience loss based on YOUR OWN BIASED INTERPRETATION of scripture.
I would agree with your relationship, and its not really yours, it is scriptural, if you used it correctly to honor God's word. You twist this equation for your own self carnal purpose and not for God's glory.
You consistently disregard context in scripture to force your desired outcome - loss of salvation. You fancy these 8 cherry-picked verses because there are frankly not many more vulnerable ones you can easily carve up or butcher, to distort and to satisfy yourself, regardless of the truth.
I'll just do the first two verses agina. You'll get the other six cherry-picked verses soon.
Matt 5:13 - BOL logic says that ‘salt’= being obedient and having belief in God = salvation. Therefore, the loss of its (salt) flavor means loss of salvation of a believer, according to BOL. Case closed.
(Mat 5:13) You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be salted? It becomes good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under the feet of men. (NEV)
Matt 5:13 has zero to do with the salvation or the threat of its loss.
The ‘salt’ like the ‘light’ are true believers reaching out to the heathen non-believing world. If a believer is to be effective in converting folks, they cannot mix the truth with false ideas of the spirit of this world or from their own mind. If they do, they compromise teaching the gospel of truth; it becomes lies. The salt or the true gospel is compromised and is no good for saving anyone. The heathen will not believe it, will not treasure it and take it to their heart. They will discard it from their minds as cheap or tarsh news of no importance to their lives.
Now the believer that spoils the teaching of the gospel does not serve God correctly or effectively. Does God then say to this believer, I will deny you for this, you have lost your salvation because you are not obedient? Of course not. And does the believer teach a false gospel because he deliberately disobeys God or loses faith because he wants to give himself glory, maybe, probably not? Does the believer then lose his salvation, of course not? That would be a wild stretch, only conceived by a determined or insecure unbeliever or a professing believer.
So BOL, do you still think Matt 5:13 is all about the loss of salvation?
To the next BOL treasured verse – Matthew 7:21
(Mat 7:21) Not everyone that says to me: Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that pleases my Father who is in heaven. (NEV)
I would suggest to BOL to add the next two verses for context.
(Mat 7:22) Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name cast out demons and in your name do many mighty works?
(Mat 7:23) And then will I tell them: I never knew you. Depart from me, you that work iniquity. (ALL NEV)
Now BOL’s logic from verse 21: Not pleasing Jesus’ Father = loss of salvation = loss of faith in God = loss of belief in and obedience to God.
Now in verse 23 it clearly says that those that work lawlessness or evil do not please God.
Now in verse 22 it clearly says that those that worked evil, cast out demons and did mighty works for Christ. Now these cannot be believers. They must be unbelievers who performed these supernatural acts by the power of evil forces, and for good works, that was common in the 1st century as it is today.
Now if BOL says these were believers that fell away, then why did Jesus say he NEVER knew them in verse 23. Never means he never once knew them, ever. If these people were once believers in Christ, Jesus would have said that he used to know them but not now. They must have chosen to 'drop out' by their own-free-will to lose their salvation, aye. Of course that last statement would be completely insane. It would only make sense for an unbeliever, and it does. Unbelievers use their free-will to say who's boss in the face of God. They are of course their own god as evil once took hold of Adam in the same way.
So BOL, do you still think Matt 7:21 is all about the loss of salvation of a believer?
Bless you,
APAK
