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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...

Is that what we read in Psalm 37:28? God said that He preserves His saints forever. How long is forever? Do you believe God?

You continue to miss the point. Go back and read post #78 slowly and carefully.

I certainly don't believe that unbelievers will go to Heaven. (John 3:18) My view on OSAS lines up with "preservation of the saints" and not salvation for unbelievers. Psalm 37:28 - For the Lord loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of...

I can see that everything I explained to you in post #78 just went right over your head. Let's try it again: When Jesus spoke these words in John 15, how many people at that time, prior to Him being glorified, had received the Holy Spirit and were baptized by one Spirit into one body? - "the...