I don't accept that he ever had salvation.
Lack of Understanding...leads men to False conclusions.
The Truth can be Told An Other...but one can NOT make an Other understand.
Learning "About" Salvation is one thing.
"Accepting" the Lords Gift of Salvation is completely another Thing.
It is more than Obvious men are preaching Scriptural characters Received Salvation and then that characters Salvation was Revoked.
Seems they completely ignore...
THREE basic Biblical 101 Facts.
1) The Lord God is All Knowing...
(Really? God Saves a soul that will later Reject Him? Pfft.)
2) The Lord God PAID the Price for All men's Salvation....And Offered Salvation To ALL men.
(Really? Men are unaware a Free Offering is not stuffed down a person's throat? The Individual must reach out and TAKE the gift.
Basic Biblical Lesson 101...
Gen. 3:
[
22] And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
take also also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
3) Really? Hearing IS agreeing IS Committing?
Boy oh boy... would like to see a court case of advertisers and sales pitch men, winning a case because someone HEARD their Offer...yet Never committed. LOL
Salvation of ones soul...
Quickening of one spirit...
Is expressly Between one individual and the Lord God.
The Very ACT of The Lord God Saving a mans soul and quickening a mans spirit...is For the Express Intent of Changing and Dividing and Separating That man Once and Forever, From this World.
The Change and Separation is Exclusively Exacted by The Lord God and Exclusively irrevocable.
To remotely Imply any man has the Power to Fool God, or supersede Gods Power... is Scriptural Taught impossible.
No God DOES NOT give His Gift of soul salvation or spiritual Quickening to men who will ever Reject Him.
Jesus came to Divide...
Very handily effective For the Day He Separates the Divided WITH Him, from the Divided WITHOUT Him.
There is a very specific Scripture relating to men who succeed in "fooling" men, about their faith....and such a person's fate.
Matt 22:
[
13] Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into "outer darkness; "
That is not a death sentence ... as in LIFE removed from a soul, Returns TO God, and lifeless Body and soul destroyed.
Outer darkness is life remaining in the soul, forever separated from God...
Trying to pull a Cunning Trick on God... is sure failure and doom.
Glory to God,
Taken