"making them" or maybe simply trying to understand :)
1 Cor 15:1-4
What is the condition required to be saved ? Belief
Is that not a contract ?
Does a person remain saved if they later no-longer believe (break the contract) ?
eg A bank loan condition is insurance, no insurance = give back the loan
1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
We are saved by grace through faith that comes from the power of God when we hear the Gospel of the Kingdom of God proclaimed and spiritually enter therein through Jesus Christ our Lord, believing in Him we repent of our sins and turn to Christ for EVERLASTING life which every born again believer possesses ALWAYS!
Those who remain saved are all who have been born again through the Spirit of Christ. Many profess to be saved who have NOT been born again of the Spirit. There are many warnings in Scripture about this kind of person professing Christ in the church. How can a born again Christian who has ETERNAL life NOT remain saved? Our salvation is NOT dependent upon us to keep ourselves saved! When we have the Holy Spirit in us, we are being kept by the power of God. The Spirit will NEVER leave us but will be with born again believers until we are bodily raised up immortal & incorruptible at the end of this world.
1 Peter 1:3-5 (KJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
One who has been born again by the grace and power of God CANNOT break covenant with God. Because the Covenant of grace is the work of Christ who saves to the uttermost those who come to God by Him!
Hebrews 7:24-27 (KJV) But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.