16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
That is from a watered down translation. The verse actually says, "
Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life."
John 10:27-30
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and
I give eternal life to them, and they will
never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 "I and the Father are one."
Jesus knows them, whom He promises eternal security to in the above passage.
If someone is practicing iniquity, Jesus will say to them on the final day,
I never knew you (unless they repent and give their hearts to Christ)...Matthew 7:23.
Those who can be defined as workers of iniquity will be cast into the furnace of fire (Matthew 13:41-42)
That speaks volumes about you hiding behind your computer screen.
What would you do to him if he weren't "hiding behind his computer screen"?
My wife, children, grandchildren are saved, friends, family, siblings etc...
Not if you are believing mormonism along with them.
(for I have reason to believe that you are a closet mormon).
You can put this rumour to rest right now by telling us that you are not a mormon in any sense of the word.
Being born from above, sealed by the Holy Spirit is eternal. If we are born again and somehow could lose our Salvation by our acts of sin, then it is like saying God made a mistake - shouldn't have saved us. Why would God give us a gift (to those who aren't worthy and could not earn it and then continue to fall , stumble and backslide) and then take it away?
Of course if a man is truly born again he becomes
a new creature in Christ; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new! (2 Corinthians 5:17 (kjv)). The old is the sinful lifestyle that we used to live; the new is the holy life that we now live in Christ; or which Christ lives in us and through us (Galatians 2:20).
Iow, our salvation has within it the aspect of a changed life. If we stop walking according to a changed life, do we then still have salvation? Chances are we never had it in the first place.
The confusing part is the fact that we have two natures still, the cleansed spiritual nature, a special sanctified part of us where the Holy Spirit dwells and then we have the other nature, our flesh.
Actually, you ought to take a wild look at Ephesians 5:30-32 (kjv) in comparison to 1 John 3:5.
And note that it is a biblical hermeneutic to compare scripture with scripture (1 Corinthians 2:13 (kjv)).
. It is true, whoever is born of God does not commit sin and cannot sin. And yet we are sinners. That is a whopper to get your head around. Then I met someone who said, it is not sin unto spiritual death, it is in our flesh nature where sin dwells and that will die - actually has died. Our spirit is dead to sin.
This reeks of gnosticism; a teaching which says that what we do in the flesh doesn't matter because our real self isn't our body but our spirit.
There is just too many scriptures warning Christians of Hell and too many sins listed that indicate the sins that will prevent you from inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven, for OSAS to be true.
However, the same scriptures do not deny the reality of POTS.
Pro 30:7, Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Pro 30:8, Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Pro 30:9, Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Not the born again type (1 John 3:5-9)
