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Yes I can reference scripture on all points. I didn't say the Holy Spirit takes away your free will - but any truely born again believer prays "thy will be done" and in so doing gives permission for God to override their desires. This amounts to a surrender of the individual will to His better...

Denying and losing faith are quite different. True believers can lose faith for a period by He will refresh them in His Love. Denying is a different matter and the ability to renounce the Faith is taken away from the true believer, when the indwelling of the Holy spirit comes and the Spirit of...

I dont think the Nature of New Covenant reduces to being conditional on our performance. 2 Timothy 2:13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

So you are comfortable with God contradicting Himself... ???

For the record your thesis makes no distinction between Eternal life and the Kingdom of God. This is the distinction between one's status as a Child of God and ones condition as we can for a time become a prodigal. One can be born again and miss out on the blessings of the Kingdom through...

How do you reconcile 3 and 5 ???

Have you got any good news ???

You aggressively damn the faithful... May the revelation of His Love and Saving Grace abound in your life.

Vessels of dishonour is a reference to the unsaved. Receiving eternal life is a promise - the idea of losing it makes Jesus a liar. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them...

What about 2 and 3. Can being born again be reversed? Does being born again require a surrender of the will to God?

Who said that ???? Do you want to have a crack at the OP and the questions that kick off the thread ???

Correct that is not what OSAS is. Agree... Agree again Dont agree... By the way in case you didn't notice, this thread is about being born again !!!

Be my guest...

Just to say I opened a thread on being born again which would help solve the discussion here but so far none of the proponents of ASNS have joined - I guess arguing is more of an adrenaline hit than resolve. Being 'Born Again'

Well I opened this thread after seeing 300+ posts on OSAS and realising that understanding what born again is will largely solve the dispute. Sadly the strong proponents of Once Saved Not Saved were not willing to come and join the thread.

Nice story... How many years passed between coming to faith and being baptised ?

20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 23 Now it was not written for his...

Yes agree...

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,