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The parable of the soils is NOT about salvation, but about one's relationship with Christ, in attaining eternal life.
You don't quote the soils & prove anything. Attaining eternal life is a key part of salvation. Your statement over & over as usual with no Bible proof, goes nowhere. It is an example of your confusion (or confusing):
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
God so loved the world that He have His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish [salvation], but have eternal life [salvation].
Eternal life is part of salvation in that the sinner is doomed to death in the Lake of Fire, but by God's grace, the sinner gets a new birth and eternal life. It is absurd to deny that such is salvation.
2 Tim 2 most directly tells us that salvation comes with eternal glory.
Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Isaiah 38
Jehovah is ready to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
I Cor 15:12-22 also states unequivocally that Christ granted life to all men. He defeated death. I know you do not believe this, from your earlier dismissals of Scripture and of the salvific content of the Incarnation. We know all men were given life because all men will be raised in the last day. John 6:39, Rev 20:13, Acts 24:15.
The verses you quote do not support your theory, which seems to be some kind of universalism. The damned are raised for judgment, which is hardly "granted life to all men."
I understand that because either your confusion, or just ignorance you do not understand the difference between salvation, what Christ did for all mankind, for the reason that God could call all men to repentance, so that all men could have the same opportunity to choose for Christ or against Christ.
Salvation is not what Christ did for all mankind, but what He did for whosoever believed in Him.
Sirs what must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.
The offer of salvation goes to whosoever will. Christ is the only Savior available to all men, but He is not effectively their Savior until they become "His people" by trusting Him as SAvior (not as chance-giver).
What is man-made are all the words you type here, quite dogmatically, without any scriptural proof. So I reject your pontifications.
As I have shown, eternal security was believed long before the last 500 years. I should you its evidence in Jerome & others. And most clearly I quoted many verses to you.
actually he was, or Paul could not tell him his faith saved him. Read I Cor 15:12-22 with emphasis on vs 17 where it states that faith would be in vain if Christ did not raise all the dead, give life to our dead mortal bodies.
1 Cor 15 says nothing about salvation to all men; to be raised for an appointment at the Great White Throne with the Lake of Fire following is no salvation. It is not eternal life, but eternal death, the 2nd death.
The redemption of all men was bought on the cross by Christ, but only effective to whosoever believes.
Yes, promise from God and it is irrevocable. But where is man's promise, can man guarantee his faith, is man's faith irrevocable as well?
Salvation is of YHWH. It is the guarantee of the Lord, not of man. He shall save His people from their sins. That means whatever is required, He does it. The child of God never stops believing in Christ, neither can you show any instance of this. We see the example of Christ praying that Peter's faith fail not. Christ is the author and perfecter of our faith. Your attempt to deny the "perfecter" or "completer" meaning there, failed.
Since you have been unable to show any evidence for this, your theory falls, is false. Man is being saved, attaining eternal life through faith, not Christ alone, nor faith alone, for that matter.
The scripture is abundant and clear. I have posted it. Your just denying things proves nothing. Christ is the author and perfecter of the Christian's faith. It does not fail. Eternal life is already a fact for the believer, as I proved.
One example: "That you may know that you have eternal life." 1 John
The ONLY way a person can have his sin forgiven is to repent, or confess his sins. Any sin not repented of, or confess is retained and can condemn a person.
Note how you have no scripture. The only repentance that saves is a change of mind from non-belief to belief. Confessing sins is not a condition of salvation in scripture, though confessing one is a sinner is implicit in trusting a Savior from sin. Judas repented in the sense of being sorry, and he also confessed it. He threw the money back. But there is no indication that it helped him not; he hanged himself.
This is what happens to a lot of believers.
Cassian, since you are no believer and since you do not appear to associate with believers, how would you know? You have dismissed the Savior as a chance-giver.
You seem to fail to understand that when a man trusts Christ, that man is begotten of God and gets a new nature which by nature does good. Choice is made in conformity with a man's nature. That is why the Lord never chooses to do evil.
They fall back into their former sinful ways, they become lazy, they just choose to forsake their first faith. You have yet to find a text that says a believer, who loses faith will still inherit eternal life.
You have yet to find a text that says a believer in Christ loses faith in Christ as Savior. The scripture is clear that the believer inherits eternal life. And his inheritance is incorruptible and undefiled, reserved in Heaven.
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish."
Thou shalt call His name Jesus,
for He shall save [not give chance] His people from their sins.