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I believe that only Noah and his family were brought safely through the flood waters in the ark while everyone else drowned and perished in the flood waters. (Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20) I also believe that hell is everlasting and many will end up there as opposed to few who will be saved and...

Fear and trembling is the attitude in which Christians are to work out their salvation in regards to the process of ongoing sanctification. It involves a healthy fear of offending God and a righteous awe and respect for Him (Proverbs 1:7; Psalm 34:9; Isaiah 66:2) and not fear of God as if He is...

Why preach NOSAS? It can lead people to type 2 works salvation and fear and bondage to IN-security. Prior to my conversion several years ago, I subscribed to NOSAS as a Roman Catholic and I was miserable!

Jesus is not teaching type 2 works salvation here. Strive to enter through the narrow gate signifies a struggle against conflict. Christ was not suggesting that anyone could merit eternal life by striving or working hard enough to earn it. No matter how rigorously people labor, sinners could...

People preach what they believe to be true according to scripture.

Why are you so obsessed with the topic of OSAS?

I did not expect you to understand.

Those who are in a state of professing adherence to the apostolic faith can certainly depart from it, without having saving faith in Christ. See 1 John 2:19.

Thank you for sharing, but I'm a bit confused on where you stand. Do you understand branches that abide and don't abide as both representing believers? How do you understand cast out as a branch and is withered, thrown into the fire, and burned?

The St. Louis man who went viral last summer after he and his wife stood an armed vigil on their front lawn as Black Lives Matter protesters marched through their gated community is praising the Kentucky diner seen holding a pistol as shouting demonstrators surrounded him outside a restaurant...

I'm usually not at odds with you. By all means, feel free to discuss.

1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from...

You may find certain extreme beliefs in both the OSAS and NOSAS camps, but that doesn’t mean everyone in both camps line up with every extreme view.

I focus on their spiritual growth and making sure that faith is firmly rooted and established in them.

I never said that.

I don't tell them they can do anything and encourage a license to sin. Those who are truly born of God have become "partakers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4) and have new appetites and desires.

You keep saying, "you can't lose" yet are you trusting in Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of your salvation from beginning to end? I often hear people in the NOSAS camp teach that Jesus initially saves us by grace through faith, then after that it's "our performance" (works) that keep...

Why would I have blood on my hands? I don't teach a license to sin or that unbelievers will be saved. I teach that genuine believers will be saved and God preserves His saints and they are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the redemption of the purchased possession/unto the day of redemption...

Typical flawed argument. You can depart from a state of professing adherence to the faith, which was the case. Christians/saints are preserved forever. (Psalm 37:28) Your argument is not in harmony with being preserved forever. There are genuine Christians and there are "nominal" Christians...

Amen! Those who depart from "the faith" (Greek tês pisteôs) means the apostolic faith, the New Testament apostolic body of doctrines. Some who are in a state of professing adherence to the apostolic faith, nevertheless will in both doctrine and practice depart from it, giving heed to deceiving...