Ernest T. Bass
Well-Known Member
this subject does nothing more than create DIVISION people are so busy arguing can you /you cant half dont even know the Bible . might i add we are more secure in salvation .than what many believe. i realize this will create a fire storm.. { i have plenty living water } what does it say norn of the incorruptible seed.. i was listening to a missionary baptist preacher sunday .. he said i believe in osas he then said . i also believe they will stay with it.. that point i agree
1 John 2:18-20 King James Version (KJV)
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
i have read about a former pastor denouncing his faith.. i doubt he was ever saved . sad thing is many don't even begin to understand the true teaching of eternal security... which is not a license to sin
1 John 2:19 does not teach eternal security. If it did, then why a few verses later in 1 John 2:24-26 are Christians be warned about "IF" the word of God continues in them and being lead astray/seduced if losing salvation were an impossibility? Could it be that John is warning Christians so they would not become apostates as those in 1 John 2:18-19?
Question: if a person became a Christian and for many, many years was faithful in worship attendance, studying the word of God and leading others to Christ but one day he runs away with his neighbors wife to live and die in adultery, will he still be saved anyway? Will he be lost?
I have had those that promote eternal security' turn to 1 John 2:19 and claim this verse proves he was never really saved to begin with. I have had others turn to 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 and claim he will be saved anyway, just his sinful works will be burned. Which is it? "Never really saved to begin with" or "saved anyway"? It cannot be both happening at the same time.