"Backslider" is a term used for Israel, but never used for a person born again.A person who believed, but not any more is a backslider.
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"Backslider" is a term used for Israel, but never used for a person born again.A person who believed, but not any more is a backslider.
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if you stop believing,were you ever really saved?
A person who believed, but not any more is a backslider.
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Also @marksAmen! Shallow, temporary belief that has no root, produces no fruit and withers away is not saving faith.
Jesus defined what believing is and who are His true disciples.A person who believed, but not any more is a backslider.
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Individuals can backslide as well as nations. The Bible is very clear on that."Backslider" is a term used for Israel, but never used for a person born again.
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Satan is very powerful and will do everything in his power to cast doubt into peoples minds causing then to lose faith and backslide. So beware of Satans ploys because WE CAN BACKSLIDE. Beware of the deceiver, he is only active in Christian circles, others are already his.A person who believed, but now has let doubt creep into his "thinking" is a backslider that is being played and used as a tool of satan.
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Notice Jesus said IF you abide in my word.Jesus defined what believing is and who are His true disciples.
John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
And I’d say that is indisputable.
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God gave us free will. It is the devil who bind us in chains. Those in the cults are already enslaved and the belief you are always saved because you once believed is a cult.God is saving. When He saves a person, that’s it. He does not fail.
His salvation is by grace.
And those He saves, He saves through faith.
Tong
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Paul said to keep running the race, and to press towards the mark. The whole armour of God is to keep Satan at bay, if it were not, God was wasting his time and that He does not do. There is a plan and a purpose for everything God does, so use the tools h gave us.And so we claim and profess and confess we believe in God and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and all that had been written concerning Christ.
What now?
Do you think you can throw away Him you claim, profess, and confess to believe? Do you think you will ever desire or want to do that? Do you see any one reason that could change what today you claim, profess, and confess concerning God and Jesus? If any of that is to the affirmative, what does that tell you about you?
It really makes me wonder, that while scriptures tells us clearly that there is absolutely nothing that can separate those now who are in Christ from God and Jesus, that some have the mind that they consider their will power excluded from the absolute nothing that can separate one from God. To think they are Christians and supposedly have the mind of Christ, that such thoughts comes to them even to the point of embracing such.
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That’s right. Jesus defined believing as one that abides.
Stop believing what and whom? This is probably one of the stupidest ideas that has seen the light of day. If a person has genuinely believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work of redemption, that never changes. And sinners are justified by grace through faith, and that is a one-time divine transaction. Anyone who has not read and studied Romans chapter 4 should do so immediately.The version that says that if you stop believing, you even continue to be saved?
You are saved indeed for that is what God in Scriptures said of them who believed in God and Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ. That is, considering that the believing is one as defined by Jesus Christ, one that is from the heart and that abides.God gave us free will. It is the devil who bind us in chains. Those in the cults are already enslaved and the belief you are always saved because you once believed is a cult.Tong2020 said: ↑
God is saving. When He saves a person, that’s it. He does not fail.
His salvation is by grace.
And those He saves, He saves through faith.
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Yes. And we should understand that and why, in the proper context.Paul said to keep running the race, and to press towards the mark. The whole armour of God is to keep Satan at bay, if it were not, God was wasting his time and that He does not do. There is a plan and a purpose for everything God does, so use the tools h gave us.Tong2020 said: ↑
And so we claim and profess and confess we believe in God and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and all that had been written concerning Christ.
What now?
Do you think you can throw away Him you claim, profess, and confess to believe? Do you think you will ever desire or want to do that? Do you see any one reason that could change what today you claim, profess, and confess concerning God and Jesus? If any of that is to the affirmative, what does that tell you about you?
It really makes me wonder, that while scriptures tells us clearly that there is absolutely nothing that can separate those now who are in Christ from God and Jesus, that some have the mind that they consider their will power excluded from the absolute nothing that can separate one from God. To think they are Christians and supposedly have the mind of Christ, that such thoughts comes to them even to the point of embracing such.
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