How is a person saved, and always saved
@Taken?
There are four definitions I see for saved,
Saved from disease illness / cast out demons (when Jesus heals others)
Saved from sin,
Saved from death, sin, Satan, hell.
Saved from the wrath of God (coming upon the generation at the time)
Those first four are saved from,
A fifth definition I would suggest is being saved to the Kingdom Heaven. Which is from a person deciding to believe and have faith, and seeking Yahavah in spirit and truth.
I believe everyone is saved from, sin, death, Satan, hell, and the wrath of God today.
But not everyone is saved to the Kingdom of God, that is by faith.
How does one stay in faith? To be saved to the Kingdom of Heaven? It’s not that a person doubts God or anything like that. It’s the person who decides to go against Yahavah all together, even suggesting that God is evil, and the Holy Spirit is evil, and or have no desire to do anything with God period in their life that will no see forgiveness in this life or the next.
So is a person who walks up to another on the street and get people to say the name Jesus, a person who is once saved always saved? Because of a prayer? Maybe, but if the hearts not in the right space, perhaps it was just a one time thing and nothing more afterwards?
How does that make sense, to say once saved always saved as a false hope. Because the narrative is not suggesting a person is no saved to the kingdom and not having God reside in them. The narrative is saying, not everyone is saved to the Kingdom. So just suggesting to a person they are saved forever on a lake one day may not mean anything at all; when they go on and just have no more interaction with God: perhaps they never cared? Or never desired to be concerned with the things of God even with your nice suggest and praying with you.
And if a person of faith walks away from faith. The notion of being saved forever was a lie as well. Concerning whether people are saved to the Heavenly Kingdom or not.
That is why it is said, “workout your own salvation,” not “workout the salvation of others.” Though you may encourage all you like.