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But would you not say that sin is defined by the law (Romans 3:20, 1 John 3:4 (kjv))? It seems to me that we are exhorted not to sin in scripture (ex. 1 Corinthians 15:34).

The underlying issue is that we are no longer under the law but under grace. On the other hand, we will be called least in the kingdom if we break the least of God's commandments in the OT and also teach men to do likewise.... But unless you are going to walk around wearing tzitzit and tallit...

It may help to know that in the kjv, verse 4 says, "Christ has become of no effect to you" rather than "you have become estranged from Christ." I'm not sure how that affects our understanding so that we are no longer contradicting John 5:24, John 6:47, and John 10:27-30; but I do believe that...

So, in losing their salvation do they cease to have everlasting life? Then it was not everlasting, but temporal life. This appears to be a contradiction that I am unable to reconcile at the moment. Maybe you have an answer?

God uses people. He can use you or me to influence the fates of other people, for certain. Case in point: the author of this hymn was attempting to influence the fates of other people by changing their pov on this subject.

Yes, You either accept the testimony of God's word or else you don't. Heb 3:15, While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Heb 3:16, For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. Heb 3:17, But...

It was both. Yes, it was justice. God punished my sins in Christ.

God is outside of time (Isaiah 57:15).

Where in Galatians 4 does it mention Jewish Christians who fell from grace?

They had a nominal, lukewarm, or shallow faith...mere mental assent to the tenets of the gospel...which did not serve to make them of Jesus' sheep. They were in the faith for all practical purposes...they even had faith...but they did not have saving faith. Saving faith serves to take a person...

I believe that Romans 4:5 is somewhat offset by Malachi 2:17.

For the sake of those who would read the verse you gave, and perhaps think of Universalism as a reality, I feel compelled to mention, in passing, Matthew 13:41-42, Matthew 13:49-50, and Matthew 25:46. These verses would appear to me to refute the idea of Universalism. But so that we don't...

You are speaking of what I consider to be an oxymoron. People who are simultaneously: -- believing in OSAS, eternal security -- involved in habitual (unrepentant) sinning are not born again Christians. If man snatches himself out of God's hand, then the scripture is broken, that no one can...

In Hebrews 1:3: because our sins have been purged, we ought to have no more conscience of sins (Hebrews 10:2).

Also, @Zachary, I want to make it clear that the doctrine that I hold to isn't OSAS (Once Saved Always Saved). That designation is defined more by the concept of people going forward in church and living like hell afterward, but "cannot lose their salvation". What I believe is more along the...

Herein is the reconciliation of the passages together: The passages that tell us that we might fall away, are intended to produce the fear of the LORD in us, in order that we might not fall away. We are to beware the possibility of falling away; and in doing this we are safeguarded against...

My reasoning for that was mentioned here: Warnings to the churches about gaining eternal death

Hi @n2thelight, I agree that predestination is according to foreknowledge (according to the definition you have given); but concerning what you said in post #127: I would simply quote to you what it says in Romans: Rom 9:16, So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but...

God is outside of time (Isaiah 57:15).

re:OP.... It means, that For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7.